First day is in the books, we spent the night in the backcountry for the opener. Went to bed with 4 bulls in this certain meadow, nothing huge but they had cows and were bugling. Shortly after light, silence. The next morning we were anticipating the 3.5 mile deep meadow on a Monday full of elk. Instead, there was a guy in the middle of the meadow tying his shoes, not what we were expecting. One cow was in the area and we didn't hear a bugle all day. Found a drop tine 5x5 that won't bugle, just groans. Pretty cool looking bull but we are going to wait on him, he seems to be killable. Today we are going to a different area, packed out of the wilderness last night and enjoyed a couple whiskeys with ICE!!
