This will be the first year I hunt elk. I'm planning on coming out for a week for the late season, OTC rifle in November. I know, not the most ideal but my hunting partner has done it a few times and he's agreed to do the hunt with me. Plus, we'll both be finishing up deer season here in So...
One post said you couldn't get much higher than 9 or 11k in CONUS...I did Mt. Whitney back in 1996/97, left on December 27, and we missed the summit (14,405') by a few hundred feet. We lost a day of climbing due to a storm, and it was pretty bad. We were trying to be on the summit on new years...