Water in CO elk unit 76
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From: LKH
07-Feb-17
In Alaska you seldom have to worry about water at altitude for sheep and goat, especially if you bring a ziplock bag. In Wyoming and Montana where I often hunt, water is non-existent or so full of alkali you can't get it down.
So this is for those who have actually hunted 76. How hard is water to come by? Do you have to drop hundreds of feet to get it where available?
From: Davy C
07-Feb-17
Are you talking about drinking water? Lots of water around, the Rio Grand flows right through. We hauled water from Silverton, the visitor center has a hose you can use.
From: Buglmin
07-Feb-17
Water for drinking while your'e camping and hunting? There is water everywhere!! Lots of streams, big and small. Springs are quite abundant. Water is very good for drinking. We still filter it out of the streams, but not out of the springs.
From: LKH
07-Feb-17
Thanks to both of you. That's great news.
From: DonVathome
07-Feb-17
LOTS!!!!!
From: wifishkiller
07-Feb-17
Yup a lot of it, creeks, ponds, that marsh crap that wants to steel your boots.
From: Z Barebow
08-Feb-17
Plenty. No need to drink wallow water!
From: Beendare
09-Feb-17
Water in U76 all the way up to 12,000' in the Weiminuche bro....in fact one day we couldn't cross the stream...it was blasting through there...and that was at 11,000' plus
From: Davy C
09-Feb-17
I thought maybe you were talking about water for hunting wallows, in which case there is so much in 76 there seemed to be wallows everywhere. Springs, on top on side at the bottom, mostly north slopes but its so much we did not think it worth hunting them because they were so abundant.