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Mountain berry report?
« on: August 20, 2016, 01:25:16 PM »
Just wondering if anyone has been up high recently and has a berry report?  Are the berries dried up in the 4,000 to 5,000 foot range or are they ripe?
Central cascades is my target area.
I have not gotten back up in the mountains for about 3 weeks due to work so Thanks in advance for the report.
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Re: Mountain berry report?
« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2016, 01:26:56 PM »
I suspect it will be slim pickens' after this heatwave.  They'll be more like raisins.
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Re: Mountain berry report?
« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2016, 02:29:53 PM »
I ate a lot of berries yesterday in the mid 4,000's. Saw a lot were still not even ripe yet as well.
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Re: Mountain berry report?
« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2016, 10:27:51 AM »
A big mixture for me on the east side. Some berries have tasted perfect. Some shriveled and dry. The Bears are out but the food sources to me have been a little all over the place. They're still eating berries but it's a matter of which berries.

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Re: Mountain berry report?
« Reply #4 on: August 21, 2016, 11:11:45 AM »
I suspect it will be slim pickens' after this heatwave.  They'll be more like raisins.

Yeah in that elevation belt, berries are GONE in N Idaho and E (actually Eastern) Washington. Cascades can't be far behind.

The remaining berries I was in yesterday were rock hard little bits of candy. That still taste great but it might take two days to fill a gallon jug with those tiny little things.
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Re: Mountain berry report?
« Reply #5 on: August 21, 2016, 11:27:54 AM »
Thanks guys. I'll probably go give it a try this evening in the 4500 ft range.
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Re: Mountain berry report?
« Reply #6 on: August 21, 2016, 12:26:03 PM »
This weekend they were very ripe 4000-5000 and at 6000 was very few. 6500 none.

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Re: Mountain berry report?
« Reply #7 on: August 21, 2016, 08:46:29 PM »
in the last week i have been to N Idaho, NE WA and Central Cascades.  There are good numbers of berries in all these places.  It was an early season for sure and not a bumper crop like last year in Central Cascades but lots of berries left. Keep looking, North and West faces will ripen last typically.

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Re: Mountain berry report?
« Reply #8 on: August 21, 2016, 09:14:27 PM »
west side berries at 4000ft and up were ripe tasty and plentiful.

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Re: Mountain berry report?
« Reply #9 on: August 21, 2016, 10:30:35 PM »
saw a bunch up bear hunting at 4200ft

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Re: Mountain berry report?
« Reply #10 on: August 22, 2016, 06:20:14 AM »
North of Snoqualmie pass berries from 2500 to 5000
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Re: Mountain berry report?
« Reply #11 on: August 22, 2016, 08:36:53 AM »
South side Baker 2000-4500' full of berries. Untouched and zero signs of bear, but probably need to get farther off trail.

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Re: Mountain berry report?
« Reply #12 on: August 22, 2016, 08:49:16 AM »
So far, there are still tons of hucks being harvested in the cascades from central to south, at least.
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Re: Mountain berry report?
« Reply #13 on: August 22, 2016, 09:14:05 AM »
I picked in central WA on Saturday around 5,000'.  No signs of them drying up yet, I'd say the berries are still on the front end of being ripe.  They can take a little heat. 

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Re: Mountain berry report?
« Reply #14 on: August 22, 2016, 11:32:01 AM »
I've been seeing them in the 4-5,000ft range, but above that has been nothing, not even green berries. Never seen that before? I don't know what to make of it. I'm going to give it another shot this weekend but I might need to look more into the 5,000ft and lower stuff, which is more timber so its tougher to hunt

 


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