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I've been to both during August, you need traffic lights to direct the hikers at the trail intersections.
you may as well hunt downtown leavenworth during one of there hippie nature freak festivals they have every weekend during the summer. you'll see about the same thing. people, if you wanna call em that. the fact you even asked about 'hunting' anywheres near lyman lakes in september says a lot. you got A LOT of figurin out to do... iv found only 2 spots that i would get excited about in about 10 years of spendin time in the high country during the summer. they're about 25 or so miles in, and about 3 miles off the trail, literally in country very people have set foot. i don't have horses and the cheapest iv been able to find for a round trip pack in to these spots is around 1100 per person. hopefully soon i'll be doin that trip. i seen the 4 of the 5 biggest bucks of my life back there, 2 that would push 200, even though they're long died off i know there genes didn't go no where. i'll NEVER tell a soul about those places, other than the 3 people that have been there with me. its true wilderness, not anything you'll find in some 'trail book'. its no different up there than anywhere else, the deer are not going to be anywheres near any humans.
Stories like this get my excited about getting "lost" in the woods =-)