Possible wolf track west of Cle Elum

[littlemac]

Snuck out on the Tumble Creek (Suncadia) golf course yesterday.  I isn't yet officially open so the sand traps haven't been worked but I came across a track that isn't the usual elk track in the trap. 

The picture here is the track with my putter as a reference. The putter head is 4 1/4 inches.  We put a golf ball in front as well which has a diameter of 1.68 inches.  Near as I can tell the print is a bit over 4" wide and long.  No one in the area has a big dog that I know of that would have been around there. 

I'm going to go nose around with a tape this morning.

[Fowlweather25]

Possible, doesn't quite look long enough.

[littlemac]

Went and measured the trac and it is 5 inches or so long, stride is about 34 inches.

[NoImpactNoIdea]

Here they come...

[Dan-o]

That's essentially the back door for the Teanaway pack, right?   I mean, it's only a couple miles from where they've definitely been spotted.  wouldn't be surprising.

I don't know enough to tell the difference between a wolf track and a big dog track......

[Smossy]

That would have to be a pretty large dog.

[AspenBud]

Great Dane? Just throwing it out there. That's a big track.

[littlemac]

That's essentially the back door for the Teanaway pack, right?   I mean, it's only a couple miles from where they've definitely been spotted.  wouldn't be surprising.

I don't know enough to tell the difference between a wolf track and a big dog track......

Probably ten miles as a crow flies from Teanaway.

[HHPro]

I hate to say but wolf tracks in tumble creek is old news there's photos of a large black male running around there and a couple smaller ones too.

[JLS]

That would have to be a pretty large dog.

Yes it would.  Sand always makes size estimation a little harder, but even with the size exaggeration it would create that would still be a very big dog track.

[littlemac]

That would have to be a pretty large dog.

Yes it would.  Sand always makes size estimation a little harder, but even with the size exaggeration it would create that would still be a very big dog track.

I agree but every time I have seen people letting their dog run on the course, the dog has loved running all over in the trap, the only other track in this one was a lone coyote track that had been washed out by the snow and rain.  That said I'll stick to "possible".

And Naches Sportsman, probably serious hacker would be more accurate since I played 115 rounds last year.  Hope to be in the single digit handicap group after I get my hip replaced in April.

[littlemac]

Neighbors out for a walk this morning at 8:30am, reports seeing a gray colored wolf near where I saw the track. 

He is making a report to the WDFW website.

[bobcat]

I'd be putting out a trail camera with some bait, and try to get a picture of it.

[littlemac]

I'd be putting out a trail camera with some bait, and try to get a picture of it.

I'll have to work on the camera and think about where to put it.

[Northway]

I remember how much the greenskeeper loved the elk bedding down around the greens and sand-traps over at Suncadia.........

Are you a member at Tumble Creek? When I worked up there years ago they weren't terribly fond of non-members nosing around up there, even in the off-season.