HIGH COUNTRY BEAR?

[deerslyr]

On a sidenote, a grizz I have been "following" for years, stays fairly high, but he travels A LOT!

Any pics by chance?? I know you must have pics 

I don't.  I have always been one step behind him.  Thankfully he feeds in the particular berry patch I put my September digs in about August 31-Sept 2.   This last year I was about 24 hours behind him.  He has done some serious excavating in the area.   Pretty cool to see.

That sounds really cool bone, hope you get some pics of him this sept!

[180-GRAIN]

To be honest the area I hunted last year I seen probably 25 bear in that area over 5000 foot in elevation. only 2 were smaller than 250 pounds and they were cubs. All the other bear were big. The smaller bears 120-200 were down low early in the season. I guess I would say big bears are where you find them, but I have seen the majority of bigger ones above tree line.

[seth30]

This thread is useless without pics

[Houndhunter]

Biggest bear ive seen bout 400lbs id guess, was at 6000' at least. But that being said, high elevation bears definitely are not not as big as your low elevation bears. They get big by the food, not a lot of food up high. However there is alot more bear up high, or atleast it's easier to see/find bear at higher elevations

[ghostshell]

there is something to be sad about packing that high country bear out. know your limits. the views and experience had up high are priceless and only can work for a small window of time for bears. i think hunt high during the time nature allows because river bottoms etc have a much greater time to hunt than high due to food source, snow melt etc. east side huckleberries were full on at 3500' to 4500' then blueberries full on up to 6000' any higher and they have not even flowered just slippery ground for now.