Glacier Creek Rd (Baker)

[MP123]

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!

Sasquatsh for sure!   

[grizzlyadams]

Sounds like Yogi and Boo Boo found a new park to play in...

Seriously though, I have never heard of or been in a situation where black bears actually stalked a human. Sounds more like cat activity than bear to me.

[furiouzgeorge]

Ha ha, good replies guys. I definitely feel a bit like a girl after reading this thread. I AM more committed to heading back up and getting that critter either on my plate if it's a Black Bear or on my camera if it's anything else. Might just have to set up camp again and try all over...is that considered baiting since I know he likes me so much?!?

[NW-GSP]

Ha ha, good replies guys. I definitely feel a bit like a girl after reading this thread. I AM more committed to heading back up and getting that critter either on my plate if it's a Black Bear or on my camera if it's anything else. Might just have to set up camp again and try all over...is that considered baiting since I know he likes me so much?!?

Don't feel like a girl I would have prob done the same thing

[furiouzgeorge]

Sounds like Yogi and Boo Boo found a new park to play in...

Seriously though, I have never heard of or been in a situation where black bears actually stalked a human. Sounds more like cat activity then bear to me.

My friend insists that the eye space (about 7") and the behavior sounded a lot more like a grizzly. Do cat's have heads that big?

[baker5150]

THe wife and I saw a Grizzly cub by the lower lodge of the ski area 3 or 4 years ago, it was in the Herald that people were feeding it scraps.  It's momma was hanging out in the parking lot for a couple days afterward.  Forrestry dept. locked the gate and had a guy warning people at the bottom.  They are definatley around up there.  I live in Maple Falls (que banjo music) and we hear of cat sightings from time to time as well.

[grizzlyadams]

I know there are grizzlies up there, and I am absolutely no grizzly expert but it still seems like cat to me. From what I know about grizzlies, they will either charge you or leave. They don't stalk. Maybe if they are used to being fed by humans, theycould follow you thinking you're going to drop some food or throw them some scraps but actually stalking you a ways down the mountain just doesnt sound like bear. Cats on the other hand have stalked many hunters and hikers. They are smart and at night they are in hunting mode. They take chances at night that they would not take during the day because they know they have the sight advantage. Many of them won't even scare off by a gunshot because they equate a gunshot to a kill. Many hunters have been cleaning their kills at night only to find a cat watching and waiting for a meal. Hard to tell for sure, but I do know from experience that that area is thick with mountain lion. They need to be thinned out so go get'em  ....

Here's an old internet pic. of just such an experience. Some say this pic has been photoshopped and is not real, but there are plenty of stories of cases such as this.

[furiouzgeorge]

It does look a bit photo shopped but I can see it happening!  Maybe you're right that it was a cat but the eye-spacing just seems a bit wide for a cat. Anyway, either way I'm out of the hunting game a bit while my broken trigger finger heals. I crunched it in my truck door Sunday afternoon and have NO good feelings in it. Just the bad kind you don't really wanna have.

[ghosthunter]

It does look a bit photo shopped but I can see it happening!  Maybe you're right that it was a cat but the eye-spacing just seems a bit wide for a cat. Anyway, either way I'm out of the hunting game a bit while my broken trigger finger heals. I crunched it in my truck door Sunday afternoon and have NO good feelings in it. Just the bad kind you don't really wanna have.

Ahhh James just put some duck tape on it and go hunting. 

[wildweeds]

I'd bet the night activity was a cat.............My buddy lives at the bottom of the road,you drove right past his house............he has shot at 2 cougars in his yard,one on the porch and the other between his house and shop,you could hit the centerline of the glacier creek road with a girl thrown rock.

[furiouzgeorge]

It does look a bit photo shopped but I can see it happening!  Maybe you're right that it was a cat but the eye-spacing just seems a bit wide for a cat. Anyway, either way I'm out of the hunting game a bit while my broken trigger finger heals. I crunched it in my truck door Sunday afternoon and have NO good feelings in it. Just the bad kind you don't really wanna have.

Ahhh James just put some duck tape on it and go hunting. 

I can't bend my finger!!!

[Jordanskylery]

Shoot with your middle finger or lefty 

[Deep Forks]

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

That Lab has one fine nose.  

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!

Sasquatsh for sure!   

You're lucky that Big Foot didn't start chucking rocks the size of a small VW bug.         Next time make him some bacon and eggs, poor him a cup of coffee and go back to bed.     

[baker5150]

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

That Lab has one fine nose.  

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!

Sasquatsh for sure!   

You're lucky that Big Foot didn't start chucking rocks the size of a small VW bug.         Next time make him some bacon and eggs, poor him a cup of coffee and go back to bed.    

I hear they like Jack Lins Beef Jerky