Spent some time in my elk area for the last couple of days.  A bit of hiking and looking let me see some really good country; only one elk spotted, but the area looked pretty promising for September. A few pics:
This little creek yielded several decent rainbows:

The flowers and foliage really benefitted from a wet spring:

Some more potential good elk country come September:

I had better be in shape in a month or two:

Man Pat that is some beautiful country!!  I seriously want to be back out there but it doesn't look like it will happen this fall!!    

What beautiful country!  What area did you get drawn for?

Great pictures Pat! I'll be in unit 48 on Sept 15...Lord willing.

I've been walking and riding an exercise bike and can't wait.

Great pics!!  Good luck with the elk hunting.

Great pics, Pat. I'm already kicking myself for not returning to the Bighorns this September. Thanks for taking us along.

Beautiful country.  Good luck to you sir!

Beautiful  

Man, I love that country!

Best thread all day thanks for sharing! Thats some beautiful country! Breathtaking.

What kind of camera where you using and what settings?

You were using a tripod, right?

That started the elk juices flowing!

QuoteOriginally posted by Goke:
That started the elk juices flowing!

A HUGE DITTO on that~!!!

Fishnhunt, I pics were taken with a Canon SX10is, using either manual or aperture preferred mode. I use ISO 80. The shots were handheld.
The scenes are in Elk Area 34 in the Bighorns.

In 1985 I hunted the south side of the highway leading from Lovell to Sheridan in the Bighorns. Packed in about 3 hours. On Tuesday before the season opened I walked into a beaver meadow off this highway and took pictures from 12 yards of a Shiras Moose that would be killed the next morning by a bowhunter from Sheridan. It stood as the Shiras world record for a few years. It was huge!  Beautiful country.

Pat that looks like great country. I have a feeling this is your year.

I couldnt kill anything there, Id be too busy gawking at the landscape. Thats what dreams are made of. Hope to get back there soon.

i love the high country, even if my lowland lungs, and knees don't. Can't wait to get back, but it won't be this year, i'm collared untill early October

Nice!!    

Tracy