I had an absolute blast! We spent the first half of the trip trying to get into our unit by base camping on the neighboring unit and 4 wheeling up to the mountain range that leads into our unit. If it wasn't for the snow that hit Colorado a week earlier it probably would have worked! We got snowed out above 10,600 elevation and crossed the saddle into our unit at 10,800 elevation. We were planning on heading south but that pass was snowed out pretty bad (topped out at 11,100 elevation) so we turned around and headed north to follow a different ridgeline into the burn but got cliffed out. I had to belly crawl up a mountain with my pack on and my bow balancing on my shoulders to get out of there.
We packed up about mid week and relocated to the eastern half of the unit (where the majority of the pressure was). After about a day and a half we managed to get on the elk. I could hear this bull screaming his head off the night before (his bugle sounded like a freight train) in this deep draw below us. The next morning we dropped 700 feet elevation into this pit to chase him. I managed to call him in but he never fully committed. He screamed in our faces (felt like the t-rex from jurassic park) and I cut him off. Next thing you know he turns around and pushes his cows off to somewhere we couldn't follow (man those things can MOVE). I know he didn't wind us because the morning thermals were still in our favor. We spent the rest of the morning tromping around their bedding area getting satellite bulls to fire off but none would come in (I think we even called in a couple of hunters as well).
We should have had two more good days of hunting left but after crawling out of that hole my hunting partner informed me that he "may have miscalculated" how much food he had left. He's family so I couldn't kill him but the silver lining is I get to hold it over his head for the rest of his life. I did manage to shoot a grouse though, those things are tasty!
All in all I'm failry certain I'm hooked. I definitely have some more training to do but overall I'm happy with my first attempt.