I would have disagreed with him and kept looking because the meat can spoil leaving an ungutted, unskinned elk out all night even if it does seem cold to you. I'll go with my own guy feeling over a guides because you really don't know the guides true experience unless it is someone you know well. I have a friend who guided for an outfitter 2 years ago because the outfitter needed a body. He had never been to the area muchless even scouted it. I would have been royaly pissed if I had paid money to an outfitter and got a guide who didn't know the area any better then I did.