Risso,

personally just find or mark a rune to wyvern island in trammel. Why? Because they spawn rather quick there. No bother from pks and with the bag of sending changes your going to be recalling to your house/bank anyway. While double resources are great. You just do not need them if your gathering for yourself. It takes my pally about 7-10 minutes to fill up with cut horned leather. If I take the gold too, I general get about 1000 hides in about every 30 minutes. Even at this rate, I could turn around and sell 1000 hides for about 40-45k. Not bad for really little work.