Hey Glowball... well I was just over the east side of the crest and a bit north of I-90 for the last 6 days farely high up... they elk were starting to talk a bit... coming off the full moon doesn't seem to always be in our favor... two nights at about 2:00 am there was a bit of squeeky talking happening and 2 mornings had a couple of big boys coming in and out to some calling...
As far as other animals... we are hunting an area that we haven't hunted before (my partner scouted it while scouting and area we used to hunt) and we are seeing all kinds of game... but the thing that is amazing is how many bear... we have seen 7 bears in 8 days afield... so far... we also have seen a bunch of gobblers...
I love the early fall, the colors and the smells are fantastic! ... Hopefully with the temp dropping fast and the little bit of snow that happened yesterday that things will get hot!
On a scary note... we talked with a guy that was camped by us with his sons (late teens 16-19) and one of the boy had shot a bear with a rifle..... the scary part was when the boy said that he had only seen the bear for a few second and then it went into the brush so the boy said "... I just placed 3 shot equally spaced into the brush and hit it in the back quarters..." as a bowhunter sharing the wood with rifle bear hunter those kinda comments really scare me!!
Anyway good luck to all afield!!!