First morning's hunt is in the books. Foggy and crappy weather (bright sunshine). I had a good time though. At first light I set up on a finger that looks over a flat in the inside bend of a creek RMZ.

Half an hour into my sit-down I started hearing cracking, snapping and popping down in the creek bottom. Tensed up and waiting, they are coming closer, and then the snap crack and pop turned into crunch, thunk, chirp, SCREEAAAM. It was a herd of about 12 elk. Including a couple of talkative young bulls. I got several looks at them through the intermittent fog at about 75 yards. But couldn't snap off a pic.

Did not see a deer.

Found a couple spots to check in the morning.