Hunting Deep in CO

[oldgoat]

I count from where i park whatever my GPS says

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This is my benchmark too!

 

[whitingja]

I think the distances get exaggerated on here, kind like fish stories, just sounds better. Very few place 15 miles in, without a road nearby. Get 1.5 miles in and your ahead of 75% of the others. Really, find the nasty hard places to get to, where no person wants to navigate, and that's where the elk will be.

 

[Jtelarkin08]

I love this thread. I was thinking the same thing. The unit we hunted last year when you get 4-5 miles in you start getting closer to the road on the other side. And when you get into the units that are closer to towns it must get worse lol

 

[dotman]

I'm pretty sure the standard math for this is take your GPS miles walked times 3 plus miles driven from highway to trailhead divided by 1.

 

[woodmoose]

Are you sure? I stop and take a short breather every mile. First elk hunt year before last it was 74 miles to get to timberline.

good one!

 

[zman]

Weminuche or maybe south San Juan is the only place you can get more than 6-7 miles from a road in CO. The wilderness area I hunt you cant get more than 2.5 miles. But that 2.5 miles is a bitch. Real steep and littered with dead pines that reach out and trip you. One canyon kicks my but after only 1/2 mile in.

 

[Coveyleader]

2 miles, or further in areas without roads will get you into elk from the 2nd week on. Less the first week.