Anyone seeing any elk as of this last weekend? I have been from Quartz Mt, Shoe String Trail, Gnat flats to Joe Watt. Sun, Mon and Tuesday. With a pack on my back, from the dark timber bottoms to the timbered ridges down lower. I've done a bunch of glassing and haven't even seen a cow. Cut very little fresh track and have spoke to a truck load of deer hunters leaving and one gentleman claimed to have seen a rag horn 5 point with 3 cows between Frost Meadows and Quarts right on the main road mid last week.
I packed it up and came back(Wenatchee), I saw a bunch of mule deer. Several respectable bucks along with 3 or 4 spikes and several 3 points. Haven't decided to go back for Saturdays main event to see if everyone running amuck might stir somthing up or just pitch the permit and run up the Clockum and whack a spike. The weather just isn't there for the Observatory. I know there are some elk there but by the time they settle down from all the deer hunters, there will be a ton of traffic by Thursday along with a chain saw buzzing in every camp. What surprised me was the lack of fresh sighn especialy several basin back into the Shoe String?
