Ya, but i sure would have don't it , even if it took me all night and it would have !!! I could have called a friend , he owes me big time . He shot Two Elk last year , a cow and a bull and i helped him pack out and butcher both . The cow , i got a phone call from him at 10 pm and we had it back and hanging in my tree by 4 am . The bull , we dragged whole down to a road and through( GRUNT PULL AND GRUNT ) it in the back of my truck . He's a young kid going to collage here in town and he only has a car . Where was he going to put these elk ?, in his trunk ?? I keep waiting for another call again , he's been using my tree stand the last week for the archery Elk hunt and my tree stand is way "UP " this canyon . I try to only hunt above the road !!