Champion shared with For The Win Outdoors some examples of what he’s heard from tourists: “Like the father telling his kids to go sit on the back of an elk that was lying down so he could get ...

“Sir, watch out, watch out!” he says, as the man seems intent on walking directly past the elk. The man is knocked over the wall, onto his head and shoulders, at 1:40.

There were 257,584 tags sold in 2021, but as of Jan. 18, 64,851 for buck deer, 1,778 for antlerless deer and 43,316 for elk remained un-reported.