Another thing that the elk like to do is come down the mountain in the evenings to feed and back up in the mornings. If you have found elk or elk sign and know whih direction they are heading you can get into position before they get there. The spots that I have hunted the last two years are steep, secluded, and the elk come up in the mornings and I have been there waiting in the mornings. For the evening hunts I get down into the ravines that the ridges feed down into and set up near meadows that have sign in them.