I'm (thankfully) moving out west to Colorado this summer and looking forward to elk and mule deer hunting. I'm used to hunting whitetails in the relatively flat and accessable Iowa countryside, so it's not too hard to get the 150-225lb dressed deer back to the truck, or the truck to the deer.

But it occured to me that not only are elk a much bigger critter than a whitetail, but they are hunted and shot in rough terrain possibly miles from where any truck can go. So the obvious question is this, how do elk hunters do to get the animal out? ATV's? Pack horses? Cut it up and hump it out on your back?

Thanks,

Mike