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<blockquote data-quote="The Trinity Kid" data-source="post: 1380591" data-attributes="member: 91382"><p>Now for today, which is the 30th of December.</p><p></p><p>This is just about closest I have gotten to a bear this season. I made it out of the house at 10:30. Later than I'd wanted, but the earliest I could. I decided to go to the same place I went Monday. I've seen bears there in the past week (just not with a rifle), but it's been pretty crowded with tourists. But I said heck with the tourists and went for it.</p><p>Once I got off the main trail and onto an old logging road, I found a set of fresh tracks within 50 feet. The mud there is kind of weird, in that it will settle back into a print and erase it within about an hour. These prints were so fresh that the hair was still imprinted. That was when the rifle came off of the frame pack and into my hands.</p><p>I tracked the bear through this mud for around half a mile before the topography changed. This first picture shows how the mud is strange with tracks. You can see my tracks on the left, and the bear on the right.[ATTACH=full]86953[/ATTACH] Just after I took this picture, the road ended, turning into a narrow trail along the inside of a canyon. The bear tracks disappeared for a minute, so I climbed the clearcut that I didn't take a picture of to see if the view was any good. It wasn't, so I climbed back down and followed a hunch, taking the trail in the direction the bear had gone. I found the tracks again ten yards farther, and it was on again.</p><p>I tracked for another quarter mile, until the bear turned up into a steep, thickly vegetated draw. It was so thick that I couldn't make it up with my pack. I was fortunate, because on the other edge of the canyon there was a fire break from the recent fire in the area that goes all the way to the top of the mountain. So I hopped on that and raced that bear to the top. This picture is about 500 feet up.[ATTACH=full]86954[/ATTACH]The whole time I climbed, I could hear the bear in the bushes across the canyon. But the brush was so thick that I couldn't see more than a few feet off of my little expressway. That was beyond frustrating. This is from the top, 1500 feet up from where I lost the tracks.[ATTACH=full]86955[/ATTACH] The fire break crosses an old road at this point, so I was able to grab a sip of water, and then make a dash for the place where the other wall of the canyon also meets this road.</p><p>When I got there, I found I was just a little too late. But I had more tracks to follow. About 1/4 mile farther, I found where the bear had peed. The temperature was still around 35-40, so the urine was steaming it was so fresh.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]86956[/ATTACH] </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm having a computer issue, apparently, so I'll have to make part 2 in a while.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Trinity Kid, post: 1380591, member: 91382"] Now for today, which is the 30th of December. This is just about closest I have gotten to a bear this season. I made it out of the house at 10:30. Later than I'd wanted, but the earliest I could. I decided to go to the same place I went Monday. I've seen bears there in the past week (just not with a rifle), but it's been pretty crowded with tourists. But I said heck with the tourists and went for it. Once I got off the main trail and onto an old logging road, I found a set of fresh tracks within 50 feet. The mud there is kind of weird, in that it will settle back into a print and erase it within about an hour. These prints were so fresh that the hair was still imprinted. That was when the rifle came off of the frame pack and into my hands. I tracked the bear through this mud for around half a mile before the topography changed. This first picture shows how the mud is strange with tracks. You can see my tracks on the left, and the bear on the right.[ATTACH=full]86953[/ATTACH] Just after I took this picture, the road ended, turning into a narrow trail along the inside of a canyon. The bear tracks disappeared for a minute, so I climbed the clearcut that I didn't take a picture of to see if the view was any good. It wasn't, so I climbed back down and followed a hunch, taking the trail in the direction the bear had gone. I found the tracks again ten yards farther, and it was on again. I tracked for another quarter mile, until the bear turned up into a steep, thickly vegetated draw. It was so thick that I couldn't make it up with my pack. I was fortunate, because on the other edge of the canyon there was a fire break from the recent fire in the area that goes all the way to the top of the mountain. So I hopped on that and raced that bear to the top. This picture is about 500 feet up.[ATTACH=full]86954[/ATTACH]The whole time I climbed, I could hear the bear in the bushes across the canyon. But the brush was so thick that I couldn't see more than a few feet off of my little expressway. That was beyond frustrating. This is from the top, 1500 feet up from where I lost the tracks.[ATTACH=full]86955[/ATTACH] The fire break crosses an old road at this point, so I was able to grab a sip of water, and then make a dash for the place where the other wall of the canyon also meets this road. When I got there, I found I was just a little too late. But I had more tracks to follow. About 1/4 mile farther, I found where the bear had peed. The temperature was still around 35-40, so the urine was steaming it was so fresh. [ATTACH=full]86956[/ATTACH] I'm having a computer issue, apparently, so I'll have to make part 2 in a while. [/QUOTE]
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