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jhouckwsu:
Looking for suggestions overall, but this area had me interested.  About 4k feet.  Pretty steep angle.  Unripe Berries in the middle of the chute (highlighted). North facing THICK cover 250-300 yards to either side stream at the bottom.  Will a bear venture out to the middle for these berries. Saw no scat or any sign.


Over 3 days Son and I went out and put about 15 miles on our feet and 50 + on the truck and saw 0 bears.   We found ripe berries at 2500 ft in the dark woods and not yet ripe berries higher in the sun.  Looked at avy chutes, and a couple old burns nothing the seemed to be full of snow/tobacco brush not berries. Am I looking I the wrong places?   

I’ve always heard find the berries find the bears.  Are there certain areas slopes angle / direction/ elevation that carry more berries?   Hints for google earth / onx to find them? 

Jonathan_S:
You say they're unripe? There is your answer. A bear doesn't need to walk a berry patch to see if it's ripe, they can walk a mile downwind and do that

jhouckwsu:
I meant in a couple weeks when the season opens.  My guess is they will be ripe then.

pickardjw:
I wouldn't go back to that spot myself. If a bear does hit those berries it'll maybe take a day to clean em out and move on.

pd:
Cool spot!  No ideas for you, but good luck, and don't coug it!

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