Welcome to your new addiction! I'm assuming you put the camera up high in order to hide it from other people? I suppose getting pictures of elk obscured slightly by fir limbs is better than coming back to check your camera and finding that it has somehow grown legs and walked away.
What are you going to use for bait? One thing about bait is that someone will be a lot more likely to notice your camera, when they see the bait and start looking around.