Listen to the other members and start with something smaller. An elk or a moose is not for a first timer unless you have several helpers. The bull elk my buddy shot last year in Wyoming took us 4 trips and 1 1/2 days to backpack out to the truck and it was only 1 1/4 miles!!! Moose are bigger and I've also helped on the smaller Shiras up in Idaho in 2007---never again without a couple mules or horses!!!