Hunted the opener weekend in GMU 224, East of Twisp near Beaver Creek and Campbell Lake. One member of party (5) got a big 5x6 but that was one of 5 animals we saw out a huge number of camps. And two of those came from Carlton and Pateros. By all acounts not only success but animal numbers and activity was WAY down. Old timers commented that they never heard it that quite on an opener morning (maybe 5-6 separte "shootings").

Personally, I covered over ten miles of pretty steep terrain to only run into the same 5 deer (2 does and 3 young'uns) several times.

Weather was no help. Full moon saturday night, mid-60's during the day.