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<blockquote data-quote="Tomjoad" data-source="post: 2139480" data-attributes="member: 117325"><p>Lots of good feedback above. I'm very new to this site but not new to Colorado (resident) or to Elk. I won't get into unit advice online. Stats are available online free from CO in terrible form or pay $150 and have gohunt crunch the numbers for you.</p><p></p><p>I have no idea what your personal circumstance is with health, fitness or most critically experience in western backcountry so feel free to take this with a grain of salt. Set very conservative goals and hunt plans based on your realistic limitations. Have backup, redundant and detailed hunt plans. Get in shape but most importantly find opportunities to get in the backcountry. I spent over two decades, mountaineering and off trail backcountry backpacking before I ever hunted, those are the most critical skills I rely on when hunting. Use the off-season to get in as much time in the mountains as your situation will allow, this will give you a chance to dial your kit before you have an extra 15-20 lbs of gun/kill kit/and 3rd-4th season layers with you. Get up early, stay out late and get comfortable route finding in the dark in big country. You don't want to be figuring any of this out on a hunt. You want it to be like breathing so you can actually focus on the hunt, not learning 50 new skills related to backcountry camping and travel. Be very conservative about distance especially off trail, in an unknown area. 2 miles sounds like a cakewalk until you are in galactic deadfall sidehilling on a 40deg slope with a 60lb pack while carrying a rifle. This isn't a hypothetical scenario, it's a lot of Colorado (get flexible). Pay a lot of attention to topos and slope shading. It's possible for a route to look doable in satellite when it's not even remotely feasible on the ground. Topos can also teach you a lot about game movement that satellite can't. </p><p></p><p>Lastly on tech platforms I too am done with onX. I prefer the flexibility of Gaia in the field and the ability to import USGS topos into that platform as Gaia and onX topos are garbage IMO. For desktop scouting nothing can touch google earth. Lots of buried tools and techniques for using this application well, go deep.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tomjoad, post: 2139480, member: 117325"] Lots of good feedback above. I’m very new to this site but not new to Colorado (resident) or to Elk. I won’t get into unit advice online. Stats are available online free from CO in terrible form or pay $150 and have gohunt crunch the numbers for you. I have no idea what your personal circumstance is with health, fitness or most critically experience in western backcountry so feel free to take this with a grain of salt. Set very conservative goals and hunt plans based on your realistic limitations. Have backup, redundant and detailed hunt plans. Get in shape but most importantly find opportunities to get in the backcountry. I spent over two decades, mountaineering and off trail backcountry backpacking before I ever hunted, those are the most critical skills I rely on when hunting. Use the off-season to get in as much time in the mountains as your situation will allow, this will give you a chance to dial your kit before you have an extra 15-20 lbs of gun/kill kit/and 3rd-4th season layers with you. Get up early, stay out late and get comfortable route finding in the dark in big country. You don’t want to be figuring any of this out on a hunt. You want it to be like breathing so you can actually focus on the hunt, not learning 50 new skills related to backcountry camping and travel. Be very conservative about distance especially off trail, in an unknown area. 2 miles sounds like a cakewalk until you are in galactic deadfall sidehilling on a 40deg slope with a 60lb pack while carrying a rifle. This isn’t a hypothetical scenario, it’s a lot of Colorado (get flexible). Pay a lot of attention to topos and slope shading. It’s possible for a route to look doable in satellite when it’s not even remotely feasible on the ground. Topos can also teach you a lot about game movement that satellite can’t. Lastly on tech platforms I too am done with onX. I prefer the flexibility of Gaia in the field and the ability to import USGS topos into that platform as Gaia and onX topos are garbage IMO. For desktop scouting nothing can touch google earth. Lots of buried tools and techniques for using this application well, go deep. [/QUOTE]
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