I've been up the Cavanaugh Side and never seen anything but a Big Tom Cougar. I've been up the back side of Finney Creek (where you come off 530 by Whitehorse) and again, big ass cougar and a few grouse!
I used to hunt bear with my grandpa when I was a kid, somewhere low, and surrounded by meadows and along either a river or large creek. I believe it was the Sauk River, but I was real young. We only ever saw deer in there. But I'm not sure where exactly it was at.