the roads on the north end are open now, you usually can't get up to windy saddle until after the 4th of july. ive drawn the elk tag twice and the muley tag twice. I passed on a couple of smaller 6x6 bulls, but unfortunately when i had a bull tag, i saw bucks. when i had the buck tag, i saw a toad bull in shooting range.
stories? ok here's a short one. when i had the bull tag, i packed about 5-8 miles in and camped on a nasty little crevice halfway between the canyon rim and the snake river. It was just above a draw that i had seen some nice bulls in during the summer. I woke up at daylight on the 3rd morning and glassed until about 11. didn't see anything,packed up camp and started the long hike out. 2 years later i was in the 7 devils saloon talking to a guy that had just whacked a nice bull. He told me a story of when he had seen some crazy b@stard camped on a nasty crevice in the steep and deep a couple of years before. He said he was watching the guy with a spotting scope and 300 yards under him was a 360 class bull and some cows. he said he waited and waited for a shot and it never came and the elk walked into the timber. i asked him if the guy he saw was camping in a bright yellow north face tent. he said yes. i almost cried.
