A few Elk pics from this weekend.

[shilala]

Originally Posted by Scothew

One of the most beautiful creatures in ths country, its my top dream hunt. I didnt know PA had elk however!

2nd biggest herd in the US. The third biggest is in Sproul State Forest, also in PA. The elk here are much bigger than Western Elk because they are all corn-fed farmhogs. They don't have to eat sagebrush and twigs.
I did a survey on Winslow Hill a few years ago and got to live with the elk for a few months.
To see them in the deep woods in their real habitat, and to see just how huge and powerful they are crashing through the trees, is really something to behold.
They plow out tunnels in the pines that you can easily drive an SUV through and never touch a branch.
I made good use of the tunnels while we were setting line. It saved a lot of machete swinging.

[Commander Quan]

Originally Posted by shilala

2nd biggest herd in the US. The third biggest is in Sproul State Forest, also in PA.

I spend the longest night of my life is Sproul State forest backpacking on the Chuck Keiper Trail, We went out 2 nights after Xmas and were going to hike for 3 days after the first night when it was 7 degrees inside my tent we decided that we were going to get out of the woods and back to the trail head come hell or high water. I didn't see any elk, probably because were were all b!tching very loudly about our shoes being frozen solid till halfway through the second day.