Thanks for sharing your experience. Our elkcamp is not as extravegant as yours. We have a big cache that we have packed in on our backs. It is a grueling hike into camp, 5 miles. We build a lean-too along a creek bank. There is usually three of us. We have enough food left over from last year to run us about a month. We have air mattresses, with battery pump. Sleeping bags, cook stoves, solar showers, pots, pans, food. utensils, basically everything a guy could need and then some. We never charge a guy to hunt with us or have never taken any money from anyone. The only thing that we ask, is that they pack in a camp donation. It will be there for them when they return, but it is there for everyone to use. Further up the canyon, we have another camp. With just as much as the first. If we get into the elk or into trouble, the camp is there. This is the camp that the guys that hunt rifle like to use. I usually am done in the first week of elk season, and enjoy taking fellow archers in for a bow kill. I have helped pack out 11 bulls in the past 2 years. Only two were done by horse. The rest was on our backs. I don't get along well with horses and had a very nice argument with one last year. That had to be one of the most club footed horses I had ever seen. There is nothing like bugling bulls in the rut. I have had as many as 6 come into cow calling. That time they were chasing each other around through the aspens, fighting and tearing up the hillside. Even if meat doesn't go down. I am never dissatisfied