Glacier Creek Rd (Baker)

[furiouzgeorge]

Plans changed, going up tomorrow night and staying the weekend. Praying I wake up Saturday morning and nab a bear before breakfast... Would love to get one before the heat sets in.

[fish vacuum]

I don't know that road. Does your friend know that you're posting his hunting area on the internet?

[furiouzgeorge]

Oh yah, this isn't really his 'hunting area' because he's never been there and probably won't be back anytime soon. We're both looking at it as a one time deal. I'd prefer to know as much about an area as I can especially related to the safety of hunting a spot. So I figure the 'risk' of losing first dibs on a spot was worth the potential benefit of knowing more of what we're getting ourselves into. Both of us are new hunters (at least for Bear) and he's pretty young.

[baker5150]

Stop and get yourself a salmon bagel at Graham's store on the way down.
Best salmon bagel Ive ever had.

[furiouzgeorge]

Thanks man!

[jgoetz]

Well, furiouzgeorge is out there now.  Hope he has better luck than I did.  I spent 6 hours watching a clearcut and nothing.  All I saw was 2 guys get out of a truck and started hearing "grab your gun!"

They had no idea I was sitting about 20 yards away.  I was thinking,  did I miss something here?!

You never know where you will run into a fellow HuntWA member.  I hope you two connected.

[NW-GSP]

Stop and get yourself a salmon bagel at Graham's store on the way down.
Best salmon bagel Ive ever had.

I also like that store. I have not tried the salmon bagel. Will have to the next time I go

[furiouzgeorge]

Had a great time up there. Didn't see anything up there but a few grouse. Camped the night but wanted to hunt the area I've been scouting down south so we packed up and hit my stomping ground. We had a very scary encounter there which I will share tomorrow when it's over!!!!!

[ghosthunter]

Eyes in the night?

[furiouzgeorge]

Our mutual friend must have enjoyed my 10:30 call last night GhostHunter!!!!! Well last night after making considerable effort to sect of camping area out and having been very careful to keep all food stuff away from camp and up high we had something come right into camp about two minutes after lights out. It was pretty big and had eyes set apart a pretty good distance. We hiked down the mountain in the dark, me backward, and slept at my house. On our way down the way down the mountain we would stop regularly to listen and it would consistantly be making it's way down the hill with us in the brush. I picked a good thick stump to fire a round into in an attempt to scare it but when the ringing stopped (.45) we still heard it. It kept up with us till we hit the half mile mark (stalked us for about a mile) and then seemed to lose interest or got stealthy. Not the exit we were planning last night. My guess is that we've found an area that's got a good sized boar who isn't too skiddish due to off-road exposure and vehicle traffic. Might be a curious fellow. I'll gonna set up a game camera this afternoon and come back for it next weekend. We went back to camp just before daylight and it's in perfect shape.

[furiouzgeorge]

I guess I won't have to worry about hunting the wind with his one.

[ghosthunter]

You are going to be a riot in Elk camp. I can hardly wait.
 
Noah and I were sitting around the camp fire at deer camp last year late at night. He heard a twig snap about 50 ft away from us in the black. Ask him what I did.

I am kind of a curious guy so I would not have left until I got a look at those glowing eyes and what was behind them.
If we were in Alaska I might have worried. But this state, bring it on. After 50 years of hunting some real remote dark hell holes I have never come across anything that was to much of a match for the fire power I carry. If I ever do meet something that big and nasty it will be a hell of a story for the other guys to tell.

Next time we want to know what it was, go forth pilgrim and bring light to the darkness.

[furiouzgeorge]

Yah I've been kicking myself all day for not trying to figure out what it was. On the way back up the mountain today I found big piles of carnivore scat in the area we stopped hearing the noises. Not sure what to think about that! At the end of the day I was closing my truck door and crushed my index finger tip...great way to end a hunting weekend. I'll be a riot alright!

[johnsc6]

 "go forth pilgrim and bring light to the darkness"

 

[NW-GSP]

reminds me of my first hunting experience in eastern wa, I was in my tent alone and my buddy had his tent set up about twenty yards away.
I woke up in the middle of the night hearing something outside my tent and see my buddys lab so I think nothing of it and start falling asleep again until I realised why would his dog be out of the tent in the middle of the night? so I start yelling at him asking if his dog was in his tent? he says yes! so I reply with are you sure cause if shes in there then there is a bear right outside of my tent he says shoot it! I have my shotgun loaded with slugs and buckshot but the bear took off before I could get a shot off, I was waiting till it was 100% safe

we think it is the same bear that had been coming into my buddys camp the year before, he was tired of it coming in so he tied a bunch of empty canned food containers to his cooler but the bear took off with his cooler and he didnt even wake up he found it all tore up the next day