Go where the cover is. Find a nice running stream or seep that has heavy blow downs and standing timber around it with small parks of grass on flat benches on the northern or eastern faces of the mountain. I'm just west of the divide and our mountains are only about 7500 feet high and I've seen the elk at almost all altitudes along the mountains but more often than not, during hunting light, I see them in their daytime beds about 2/3 of the way up the slopes. They start grazing up the slopes just before sunrise and by 10 AM they are sitting tight in their secure park among the darkest timber they can find. These small grassy parks with water close by allow them to sit tight and not move very much, that's why it's tough to find them, you have to find that one small grassy park where one or two bulls are quietly chewing their cud.
