Checking in. Surprised to have a cell signal in this wilderness area somewhere in the San Juans.

Got camp set up today. Elevation has worn down my partner. We plan to hit the dark timber in the morning. Can't wait. Hope to check in sometime later this week.

We have a cow and bull tag. Lots of hunters in the area, but there's also thousands of acres and plenty of room to roam. We saw a party loading up a buck and Doe mule deer this morning on the ride in.

Gotta manage my cell phone battery carefully!

Looks awesome. Hunt safely and best of luck!

Looks like beautiful country You're in. I hope you get to dull your knives on a big 7X7. Oh, and a cow too.

You don't have a charger in the pickup?

those San Juans are mighty tough mountains, hunted there twice. Good luck.

Wow, looks beautiful! Good luck and keep us posted. I would love to do this trip one day.

You lucky dog, kill a bigun or two.

It's a Toyota I'm sure he doesn't have a spare set of AAA batteries to run the thing

Good luck

Looks like fun

Cool!

Sounds like a good time. Good luck!

Good luck. I hope it's not as hot in Southern CO as it was in Denver yesterday. Maybe y'all will get some snow.

Good luck! Enjoy it!

Good luck. Beautiful place.

Highs in the low 70s. Not particularly ideal elk hunting weather according to conventional wisdom.

We eased into the hunt today and covered some ground. We saw a mule deer. Ran into a 74yo man who's hunted the area for 24 years. Salt of the earth guy. He bumped a 6x6 out of its bed 2 hours before we came through that trail.

In terms of strategy, I'm struggling. Yeah, you can bump into a bedded bull, but I'm guessing it's like trying to shoot a white tail buck out of its bed. Hard as hell!

So that means we gotta catch them coming and going to feed. I think they are feeding in some isoldated meadows and probably in dense forest. We'll work it out.

I do like the community atmosphere up here. Most folks we've bumped into are real nice and helpful.

Yes, the truck has a phone charger, but we dang sure aren't going to burn all our gas trying to keep the phone going.

Love that part of the state. Haven't taken the time to hunt elk there yet but it's definitely on my list. There are places in the San Juans that you can go and not see another human for a week. It's one of the last spots you can find true unmolested wilderness in colorado. Good luck and be careful!

This is something we have noticed as well, everyone seems to be very helpful, the biologist that we have talked to are awesome. Two years ago when in Colorado we stopped in one of the office and talked to a young guy that was working for the national park service he offered if we would buy a map to mark it up with some good spots as he was already tagged out during bow season and we were hunting second rifle.

His advice and spots were solid we saw a total of 11 bulls on the spots he marked one of which was a monster 6x7 but it was the day before season while we were scouting. Another group killed that bull and he was unbelievable for public land.

My elk trip didn't make this year, so we are headed to Nebraska to bow hunt end of next week, but next year I will be back in Colorado.

Hunt safe, drink plenty of water and good luck!

From today:

Glassing a huge meadow.


Elk or mule deer rub.


One of the last spots we hunted today. Meadow beside creek and dark timber.


Heard some bugles mid morning. 4 shots were heard in that area shortly afterward. We plan to stalk the top half of dark timber for the remainder of trip.