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    Coffee Pot Road conditions?

    With chains - should be good on Coffee Pot, though I haven't taken a trailer up there in weather. Chains are what saved me on Travers. Literally saved my life.
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    Coffee Pot Road conditions?

    Just make sure you're aware of the weather - the other side (its a series of FS roads over to Glenwood Springs) is an absolute nightmare if its even drizzled. 15 minutes of light rain and its deadly - thick mud that just cakes. Called Traver's Trail on the Glenwood side, and super steep, not as...
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    Core-Lokt for elk

    Yeah, can't stress this enough - I hit my first buck just on the edge of his leg just below the shoulder, shattered the bullet, split the core out and found the jacket on the opposite side of the hide (core went through the hide about 12 inches away). Luckily, it appeared that the jacket had...
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    Rookie CO Elk hunter - random observations/changes after 1st DIY/OTC hunt

    As far as GMU 14 goes, its not all beetle kill. A lot of that area was parts of the Routt Blowdown back in the late 90s. Look it up. Several million trees went down overnight. I've hunted there, and its brutal on the quads. But, I got in a huffing match with a bull moose (up a cliff, safely...
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