I live in Pueblo Co. and was raised in Pa. 38 years of elk hunting started off very slow. you must learn to hunt elk and forget most you know about white tail hunting. Most of Colorado has good numbers of elk 250 thousand, Pa. has 2,000,000 deer and the state is less then half the size of Colorado. Pick up the pace cover as much mountain as you can, use good optics any place you can see for miles. Do not slow down till you see elk then start to hunt. If you see no elk today in the morning go to the next ridge or drainage and do not hunt as a group. You take one drainage and your bud another till you find what you are looking for.