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Hunting the Late, Late California Black Bear Season - Pictures
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<blockquote data-quote="The Trinity Kid" data-source="post: 1386582" data-attributes="member: 91382"><p>Hey everyone.</p><p></p><p>Sorry about the delay in posting the ending, but that "computer issue" I mentioned was actually my laptop telling me it was minutes from dying - permanently. </p><p>So my laptop, with practically all of the rest of my pictures, is totally toast, though I may be able to recover some of the stuff from the hard drive: I don't know. My dad is the computer nerd, not me. I'm the gun nut.</p><p></p><p>In a nutshell though, I didn't get that bear. I tracked him until I lost the trail on a rocky granite face, so I climbed that and glassed until dark and had to climb back by clouded moonlight. Fun.</p><p></p><p>The next day, which was the last day, I said screw everyone sleeping in the living room, and the cars parked behind me, and I left the house an hour before first light. I went to generally the same place and sat and glassed. I sat there in the icy fog (which was freezing to the lenses on my binoculars) for two hours, but all I saw was a little spike at 15 yards, and a dozen or so woodpeckers. </p><p>The fog rolled in thick after daybreak, so I crawled behind the rootball of a fallen pine and used the branches to make a small fire and boil some coffee. Then I moved half a mile up canyon and glassed for another two hours.</p><p></p><p>By then it was almost noon, and people were starting to come into the area, naturally. So I went home, shoveled down some pie and ham, and then drove up to the top of the canyon I was in. I glassed for another hour before the sun started going down and I had to throw in the towel.</p><p></p><p>So, concluding my 2017 California Black Bear hunt was anticlimactic. All I have to show for it are a few pictures and some lost shoe leather, but that's the way these things go sometimes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Trinity Kid, post: 1386582, member: 91382"] Hey everyone. Sorry about the delay in posting the ending, but that "computer issue" I mentioned was actually my laptop telling me it was minutes from dying - permanently. So my laptop, with practically all of the rest of my pictures, is totally toast, though I may be able to recover some of the stuff from the hard drive: I don't know. My dad is the computer nerd, not me. I'm the gun nut. In a nutshell though, I didn't get that bear. I tracked him until I lost the trail on a rocky granite face, so I climbed that and glassed until dark and had to climb back by clouded moonlight. Fun. The next day, which was the last day, I said screw everyone sleeping in the living room, and the cars parked behind me, and I left the house an hour before first light. I went to generally the same place and sat and glassed. I sat there in the icy fog (which was freezing to the lenses on my binoculars) for two hours, but all I saw was a little spike at 15 yards, and a dozen or so woodpeckers. The fog rolled in thick after daybreak, so I crawled behind the rootball of a fallen pine and used the branches to make a small fire and boil some coffee. Then I moved half a mile up canyon and glassed for another two hours. By then it was almost noon, and people were starting to come into the area, naturally. So I went home, shoveled down some pie and ham, and then drove up to the top of the canyon I was in. I glassed for another hour before the sun started going down and I had to throw in the towel. So, concluding my 2017 California Black Bear hunt was anticlimactic. All I have to show for it are a few pictures and some lost shoe leather, but that's the way these things go sometimes. [/QUOTE]
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