Just want to start out with saying everything I know about bears I learned from lurking on this forum

I have't posted much so hopefully I got the pictures attached right lol

So....Went out for a little grouse hunting today and came across a bunch of bear scat it was all in about a 500 yard stretch on an abandoned logging road. What is your guys take on how fresh it is? I poked it with a stick and it was still pretty squishy

I'm thinking couple days maybe but I dunno. The scat with the black berry's in it was quite large just a bit smaller than a pop can in diameter so i'm thinking its a sow? It also looked like to me all the scat was from the same bear too?

I think hunting this area isn't going to be easy its a network of abandoned roads with really thick and nasty cover and on the right side of the roads are steep grades for the entire length (about 4 miles) that a mountain goat would love lol. The left side of the roads are filled with about a 25' buffer of black berries (some dried up, some ripe, some not, some still green) beyond that its more nasty thick stuff into even nastier and thicker timber so pretty much sneaking through the brush and being quite about it is pretty much out of the question. I'm thinking the only chance I would have is to see it is when its feeding down the road or crossing it someplace. The only thing I can think to do in the situation is pull out the 2 or 3 cameras I have and set them up along the road for a week or two and hopefully be able to come up with a pattern and then find my ambush point and sit and wait it out. I would like to here any thoughts or suggestions anyone may have