Pretty much what Flags said. We drive in with 4x4 trucks (my partner uses a F-150; I use a Chevy Suburban with a 4x4 package). We park at the end of the road and pitch our tent about 50 feet from our vehicles. We walk in 1 mile - 3 miles to find and hunt the elk.

If we kill an elk, we cut it up on the spot and pack out the pieces. Different people do this in different ways. I cut the lower legs off where they meet the thigh/shoulder and throw then away. I have found that lower leg meat is not very fun to deal with -- it is full of tendons and tough. I skin the up-side of the elk, remove the thigh in one piece, remove the shoulder in one piece, remove the up-side backstrap, remove the two tenderloins. If it is a cow, I roll the carcass over. If it is a bull, I remove the antlers, and then roll it over. I then do the same thing on the opposite side. It can be challenging to roll an elk over on your own, by the way. The meat is cut off the up-side, but it all remains on the underside, and you are having to lift that one way or the other to roll the elk over. It may be desirable to spin the elk around 180 degrees where it lies to make it easier to roll it over. I remember I cut up my partner's elk for him one year by myself, it was a biggish 6x6, and I had a very hard time rolling it over because of its size. Possibly this is partly difficult because it can be awkward to grab something to turn it over.

Some people debone the meat to remove the femur bone and shoulder bone to make the carry out of the elk meat easier. I prefer to leave these bones in to make the lives of my hunting partners more miserable when helping to carry my meat out. Just jokin there! I prefer to leave the bones in because I think the meat stays fresher that way (the part of the meat that is next to the bone and the meat that you cut through to get at the bone can be exposed to the air after you remove the bone). Also, I make a considerable quantity of elk broth with the bones and waste pieces of meat back home when I butcher my elk. A thigh with bone in it weights about 60 LBS to 70 LBS. A shoulder with bone in it weights about 30 LBS to 35 LBS. These weights are based on my experience. Hauling out a 60 LBS pack isn't too bad, but it does let you know you have carried a load. One of my partners hauled his elk out on his own in two trips in 2016. That was impressive. He is considerably younger than I am and lives at 6500 feet. Even so . . . very impressive. He may have done this in one day, I don't remember.