The Outfitting Year in Pictures on the Wild Coast

Thanks! I appreciate the insight and the honest assessment. I look forward to next year's pics.


Ardent said:
Always hesitate to even guess, as it's just a made up number, but that's all everyone else is doing. I did scale a typical mature shooter black bear, 293lbs, and that's a boar many would estimate at 400lb.

Grizzlies are too big and in too remote of places to scale, but I grew up commercial farming and went through a lot of auctions, I feel I can get pretty close. The honest answer is smaller than most would think, bears get heavily exaggerated. If I had a $1000 bet riding on being within 50lbs of the lightest and heaviest Grizzlies I've guided, I'd say 400lbs at the lightest and 950 on the heaviest. When they're pushing that 1,000 mark they're around a third lard. These weights may sound mild but pound for pound they're the strongest thing in the bush, and make big black bears look pretty soft. I've only ever seen one or two bullet exits on them too, they're built like barrels, and that's right up to .375 Ruger, and I tell clients to keep shooting until it drops.

In summary, most would at first think they're huge when sighted live, and then be initially surprised and think even a 1,000lb grizz is smaller than expected when walking up on it dead. You have to remember they're not on long legs like a moose, and are deceivingly heavy for something much shorter at the shoulder than you expect. Soon as you try and roll it to skin it, and Hoytcanon can attest, the weight becomes immediately apparent. It can still catch you off guard each time, and they're hard to roll with two or three strong guys. I think I'd probably be a little surprised how heavy they are if I had a scale out there, as I like to be conservative on them and avoid the industry norm of everything growing one third after they hit the Internet.
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carverk said:
i worked on sum of BC glaciers for years but a bit north of Ardent once you get the glacier in your blood its their for life
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That it does - almost as much hunting - but not quite.

This is my wife and I on an expedition we took for her 40th birthday a number of years ago. Two weeks of expedition style ice and rock climbing. In this photo our tent is just out of the frame and we are camped at 19,000 feet (5800 metres) at the foot of a glacier inside the crater of an extinct volcano in South America.

 
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Superbrad said:
But, are you willing to Indian leg wrestle him (or the goat), for the shot?.....

Either way, my money is on you......

It is a great pic....... and, you never know.... that is what adventure is all about
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I would never leg or anything wrestle Greg! Would challenge him to a cook off, my freeze dried spaghetti against his crisp pan fried Coho (and perfectly done) that he stole from the Grizzlies.

Species8472 said:
Living the dream. Do you do much glacier travel? Do you need crampons for that kind of trekking?
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In August we do, but only if necessary, the goats are mighty high then. We have some huge glaciers on the north coast but try to stay off them, risky with clients. If we have to put on crampons and buddy up then we're probably going too far with clients.

Great pic from the Andes in the next post! Where did you guys go? I climbed Huayna Potosi in Bolivia back in 2003 or so to join the 6,000m club. Sounds like you guys went a good bit further.

Riverboy said:
Well that got cleaned up quickly. Some muscle car guy seems to be absent as well. Great Pictures !
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Thanks River, appreciate the kind words and some friends who helped.

carverk said:
i worked on sum of BC glaciers for years but a bit north of Ardent once you get the glacier in your blood its their for life
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Still probably one of the most beautiful natural features you can experience, is a spectacular blue glacier as you well know. Solid rivers, neat sleeping beside them and listening.
 
Angus you are an all around class act and one hell of a great representative, both of your industry and hunters on the whole. May you have many continued years of business success and adventure. Enjoy your family and all the riches of life.
Thanks for sharing it all with us.
 
Ardent said:
I would never leg or anything wrestle Greg! Would challenge him to a cook off, my freeze dried spaghetti against his crisp pan fried Coho (and perfectly done) that he stole from the Grizzlies.



In August we do, but only if necessary, the goats are mighty high then. We have some huge glaciers on the north coast but try to stay off them, risky with clients. If we have to put on crampons and buddy up then we're probably going too far with clients.

Great pic from the Andes in the next post! Where did you guys go? I climbed Huayna Potosi in Bolivia back in 2003 or so to join the 6,000m club. Sounds like you guys went a good bit further.



Thanks River, appreciate the kind words and some friends who helped.



Still probably one of the most beautiful natural features you can experience, is a spectacular blue glacier as you well know. Solid rivers, neat sleeping beside them and listening.
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right up there with getting within 15 or 20 feet from your first grizzly well fishing (robbing creeks in Alaska your tipacl kid stuff lol) and no rifle sum things you never forget i still love seeing them both not the creek robbing part i dont do that any more but it was fun haahaa
 
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