Rick: Nice looking bird and it looks like you need to be a billy goat to get to them - true?
Sometimes, but you'd be surprised to find that most of my hunting is fairly level ground. The logging spur roads that branch off the forestry road have overgrown to little more than cattle trails these days. However most are level across the hillside and lead into coverts along the way. A mile or so off the road there's little if any other hunters and the birds don't get skitterish until mid October. By then the "orange bloom" of deer hunters invades all the the most remote coverts. That's when I head higher...or farther east after chukar.
