Alta Late Tags

[splitshot]

  a friend who lives in alta and has a gardner tag has not seen a buck over 25.  he has been hunting for 14 days.  has seen 2 wolves and a bear.  he wont put in for alta or gardner again.   mike w

[Craig]

I watched a wolf drop down into the alta unit last year during my late buck hunt. Saw lots of tracks in the snow.

Next to my .300 ultra mag round

[BGhunter]

The one with the hand in it looks like canine and the other looks like cat. Could they be different tracks ?

[Griz231]

The one with the hand in it looks like canine and the other looks like cat. Could they be different tracks ?

They were right next to each other. We should of taken a better pic of the bed. I was trying to capture the whole bed with piss.  There were a lot tracks and definitely wolf. We saw wolf track on this same ridge last year.

[Ridgeratt]

cle elum bowhunter  Perhaps some one was just exercising their dog or dogs.

[cle elum bowhunter]

Ridgeratt, I suppose that could be true but tracks came up out of a canyon, traveled the road a ways and then dropped of the other side of the road towards Alta.  Btw, no boot tracks anywhere along that stretch besides mine.

[Ridgeratt]

KFHunter had a photo close of folks exercising their dogs over here also.

[oldschool]

 Still no success pics maybe nobody on this site has a tag?

[WAcoyotehunter]

Still no success pics maybe nobody on this site has a tag?

anyone?

[Skyvalhunter]

Well if people held out for larger bucks they might be eating tag soup.

[splitshot]

2 friends did exactly that.  mike w

[ironbuck]

way too much wolf sign in manson too  very sad

[splitshot]

we need to transplant some wolves to Olympia.    mike w

[WAcoyotehunter]

It's a tough time in the Alta.  I have been seeing plenty of deer, but the rut is pretty well over and the weather has not pushed many deer down from the high country.  No shooters yet.

[Smokepole]

Lots of wolves in Alta.  They have increased their range a lot in the past few years.  Had some resident moose where I hunt and they cleared out.  The deer have largely cleared out, with a few small pockets of skittish deer left.  I see a lot of wolf scat and tracks.  Lots of cats last few years.  I started packing a sidearm during muzzy season, since I hike in the dark.  Too many dogs and cats.