Every hunt here is fully outfitted — camp, stock, meat care, and a guide who's hunted these drainages a quarter century. You bring the tag. We bring everything else and pack out heavy.

Six days in the dark timber during the September rut. We call bulls to the bow and hunt the north-facing benches where the elk hold all day. The hardest, best way there is to kill an elk — and the one our guides live for.

First, second, and third rifle season. A clean shot, big country, and a guide who knows where they bed and where they move when the weather turns. We glass hard at dawn and dusk, then close the distance on foot.

Heavy old bucks above timberline. This is glassing country — we pick the basins apart at first light, find a buck worth the climb, and spot-and-stalk into range. A limited-draw tag and a true high-alpine hunt.
Two tags, one backcountry week. Hunt elk in the timber and mule deer up high out of the same wall-tent camp. The full mountain — more days, more country, and the best value we run for serious hunters.

Your hunt, your terms. We pack you and your gear miles past the trucks, set a wall-tent camp on good ground, and come back for the meat when you've got it down. You hunt it on your own. We handle the heavy work.
Canvas tents, woodstoves, and three hot meals a day, packed in by horse and set on good ground.
Stock to get you miles past the trucks and into the units the trucks can't reach.
We quarter, hang, and pack your animal out. Your meat gets handled right, every time.
CPW-licensed guides who've worked these drainages since before you drew your first tag.
Spotting scopes and tripods in camp for the high basins — glass all day, climb once.
Honest field photos and a clean cape for the taxidermist before we pack off the mountain.

Gunnison, Colorado · (970) 555-0148 · hunt@wapitiridge.co