May 27. Arrived at camp and found 2 big trees had fallen across the tent frame; they just missed the main ridge pole, but wiped out the poles that support our 'awning' tarp.
Replaced a couple of poles and went without any awning. I'll fix that another time.
May 28. Fresh bear & wolf tracks.
Boar marking tree; claw marks are quite evident in the bark.
Bear wallow.
Bear s**t...
Rando on the trail, May 28th.
May 29, down by the south river crossing.
Rando's bear. He shot this bear on the 29th, at 180 yds, with a .338WM. It ran about 40 yds and piled up at the bottom of a steep, thick draw. Couldn't recover it that day. This bear measured 6'5" nose to tail and we figured weighed something around the 325-340 lb range.
Tracks of a sow with 2 cubs crossing a sandbar on the north river crossing.
Another boar marking tree. I'm 6'3" and cannot reach anywhere near the claw marks that were on that tree (just below the break).
Cat track on a trail south of camp. May 31st.
A wolf track for comparison.
Whitetail buck skull I found at a kill site along the river; figure it was a cougar kill, as I saw one of the buggers about a mile from where I picked up the skull. Magnificent orangey-golden colour, it bounded across the trail right in front of me.
###L pile of bear s**t.
Sun setting May 31st.
A couple of lever actions; both Miroku production. Left is Rando's Browning BLR .30-06 and right is my M-1895 Winchester, in .405Win.
Skeleton of a large (whitetail?) buck, killed by wolves. June 1st.
Cow moose skeleton, also killed by wolves. June 1st. We didn't count them all, but we musta seen a dozen deer and moose kill sites.
Sow bear play fighting with one of her 3 cubs. June 2nd 2011. We saw a sow with 3 cubs, two different times, on this trip.
Breaking camp in the snow... again... June 3rd.
Bear camp 2011. Ready to hit the trail. We had a replay of last years goat-roping, 26 kms of clay, pit-run and creeks, with snow falling all the way.
Can't wait to do it next year.
