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Offline Buckrub

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Berries????
« on: August 12, 2009, 09:06:23 AM »
Anybody been up high enuff to see how the berries are doing?? Thinkin about making a charge for the top....any input?
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Re: Berries????
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2009, 09:29:52 AM »
I picked a couple gallons last week at about 4500 feet.  Then picked a bunch more on the weekend all the way up to 6,000  (east side)

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Re: Berries????
« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2009, 09:32:11 AM »
I picked some black berries and made a cobbler yesterday it was excellent :dunno:
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Re: Berries????
« Reply #3 on: August 12, 2009, 09:45:16 AM »
Must be time if the pickers are out...thanks guys.
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Re: Berries????
« Reply #4 on: August 12, 2009, 11:22:49 AM »
i was up at tonga ridge (skykomish) pretty high and didnt see any berries! That was last saturday...

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Re: Berries????
« Reply #5 on: August 12, 2009, 11:43:45 AM »
I assume you're talking huckleberries...they were ripe at 4,000 feet above Lake Wenatchee.  Was there last weekend.

Also found some Wild Mt. Blackberries that were just getting ripe.

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Re: Berries????
« Reply #6 on: August 12, 2009, 11:47:32 AM »
I was.   Actually the hucks are surpassing the service berries at higher elevations for ripeness. 

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Re: Berries????
« Reply #7 on: August 12, 2009, 12:03:02 PM »
Picked 2 gallons of Wild Blackberries a month ago. Yummy pies. Seen a few huckleberries up high but not an abundant amount.
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Re: Berries????
« Reply #8 on: August 12, 2009, 12:04:37 PM »
I think it really depends on the freeze.

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Re: Berries????
« Reply #9 on: August 12, 2009, 02:04:39 PM »
Anybody notice the lack of serviceberries in the lower elevations this year.  Spots I usually check for bears this tiime of year have nearly any berries on them and are very small and dried up already.  The last two years they were as fully loaded as I've ever seen them.  Chokecherries are fuller this year than the previous two though.  Seems wierd to me, but I guess it just shows that each berry reacts differently weather their exposed to.

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Re: Berries????
« Reply #10 on: August 13, 2009, 08:26:27 PM »
Ate a whole bunch of blueberries at 4200' last night, looked like the bear did to.

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Re: Berries????
« Reply #11 on: August 14, 2009, 10:02:08 PM »
Went scouting tonight and was up around 4000 feet.  Lots of berries up there...

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Re: Berries????
« Reply #12 on: August 16, 2009, 12:48:17 AM »
I was at 4600' today and was able to eat berries. Bear dumps showed the same thing.

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Re: Berries????
« Reply #13 on: August 16, 2009, 08:10:46 AM »
Just got back from 2 days in the Buckhorn Wilderness scouting for the High Buck Hunt and hoping to see some bears.  There weren't any berries at all up there.  It was actually pretty dry up above 4,000 ft.

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Re: Berries????
« Reply #14 on: August 18, 2009, 06:30:03 AM »
I was up at the 6000 ft elevation last weekend, lots of green huckleberries but very few ripe. Still need a few weeks before the bears arrive, i was in the greenwater area on the west side.
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Re: Berries????
« Reply #15 on: August 18, 2009, 07:28:44 AM »
At one of the local roadside bear hunting spots all the blueberries were ripe the other day.

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Re: Berries????
« Reply #16 on: August 18, 2009, 10:22:48 AM »
Went to my secret bear spot last night...hucks were ripe...most of the black berries had another week or two before they really came in (fairly low elevation), with the exception of the bushes that were really in the sun.

Had a yote or a bobcat come out of a swamp at dusk (40 yards or so)...I am guessing a yote but the back end stayed in the brush, so I couldnt make out the tail... it was dark and hard to tell, went to lift the binos on em, he disappeared.

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Re: Berries????
« Reply #17 on: August 18, 2009, 04:59:39 PM »
Any berry patches up on the crest trail? top of chinook pass? Just curious was thinking bout heading up that way towards dewy lake to see if I cant find a bear!

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Re: Berries????
« Reply #18 on: August 18, 2009, 05:00:45 PM »
I can't speak for Chinook but I have seen ripe blueberries on the crest trail in the past 3 days.

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Re: Berries????
« Reply #19 on: August 18, 2009, 05:02:52 PM »
I was up high today and the blue berries are still green.6000ft..No bear sign up high but some very very fresh stuff at about 3000ft.   Couple more weeks til they get ripe up there!!!!

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Re: Berries????
« Reply #20 on: August 18, 2009, 05:53:51 PM »
Was in the Glacier Peak Wilderness last weekend 8/7-8/9 and most everything above about 4500 were still pretty green. Down below 4000, berries were plentiful. Was in the Chiwawa River area.
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Re: Berries????
« Reply #21 on: August 18, 2009, 10:45:13 PM »
I just got back! Hucks, blue and red, Blues and Salmon berris ripe at 5000+.  I happened in to Salmon berries surrounded by nettles on a southwest slope where I really didn't expect to see any.

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Re: Berries????
« Reply #22 on: August 18, 2009, 11:01:45 PM »
The berries are pretty few and far between where i hunt.  :(
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