Locating elk with high pressure

[BustedRagHorn]

start glassing like mad but this time for tracks,

This is a great strategy. As mentioned elk will stage if they haven't already started their migration. I find that often when they are staging they are in much bigger groups than deer. You can go days with just cutting one or two tracks then you get into the right basin and there they all are. They will sit in the area where no one messed with them. They can be fairly predictable from year to year once you have their migration routes and staging areas pegged.