Here's a quick report from the Entiat and my buddy's tag.
Friday the opener was warm and calm, and we saw very little activity, high and low. The front moved in on Saturday, and we started the day with a 130's class buck rutting up a small group of does way down low. Good sign. Battled the fog and saw deer here and there, not a ton, presumably mostly residents. We glassed and worked our way up high, and hit fresh snow at about 5,000 feet. It was snowy and blowing sideways, made it really tough to glass. On the way to the top, we hardly saw any tracks in the snow - discouraging, as I figured that snow would get them moving downhill. But on the way back down a while later, we started seeing a lot more activity, including one 140's class buck trotting straight down the mountain. No does in sight, looked like he just wanted out of the nasty weather.
At the end of the day we worked our way back to the bottom. As luck would have it, way down low, we had a doe walk out of the hill crease above us...then another doe, then another, then a big buck...good mass, dark horns, and deep forks, and that did the trick!
