You can tell anyone you want, I don't hunt elk that far from my house. I live on the Tower road in Castle Rock and we have plenty of elk and easier pack for me at 65. Not that I'm not in top condition for climbing and packing after setting the cameras around the Mountain for years and working in the woods logging till retirement.
The elk goes back and forth from the loowit to the toutle area on the end of the 3000 line, I parked on the start of the trail to castle lake and will go both ways over the hill depending on which side I want photos.
I did hike down to the ponds below the turnout on the loowit side to check out how the cutthroats were doing, seems to be a quite a few still in the creek ponds, I don't fish but like to see them surviving to re-stock the toutle. Not sure how far I hiked but it is very steep took several hours to get to the bottom and a couple to climb back out. I'm sure i could have walked all the way to and back from Castle lake a lot faster.
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