Let him go to grow

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[Skinner]

Dont know that I could have done it unless i just had the camera in hand!  Nice pics cant imagine eating elderberries (sp?)

[actionshooter]

cute little guy 

[Ray]

Good choice.Good photos

[littlebuf]

hides are lookin good over, thats a good thing since i leave in the morning for my bear trip

[boneaddict]

His hide did look nice.  It was 95 degrees when I took these.  I think he might have been warm, I know I was. 

[runamuk]

What a cutie......nice pics

I have seen a number of people picking elderberries on the side of the road  elderberry wine

[Machias]

Great photos!!

[boneaddict]

I was always told that they had to freeze before a bear would eat them.  I wonder if thats an old timers tale.(something to do with crapping themselves to death)  This guy certainly wasn't waiting, though he didn't feed on them much.  He was sure on the search for food.   I have a couple more pics of him I'll add as he worked that bush...what he was doing when I heard and stalked him.  Mostly you can't see him though or tell what he was, so I didn't post them.  I ended up following him for over a mile mostly at about 30 yards or less, trying to geta pic of him.  Funny critter.  The ones where he is looking at me are where I blew on the bearman ric call.  Made him at least gander LOL

[mossback91]

Man the bears tear them elderberrys up in the late fall from what Ive seen before grouse tear em up all the time........

I think iceman tears into them things for pie too

[boneaddict]

I've seen his pies, looked awesome.   I was told that the freeze did something to the chemical in them so that they didn't make you crap to death.  They are like a living laxitive.  I wouldn't want to be around Ice after one of them pies .   I've also been told by old timers its part of th ebears routine right before hibernation.  Supposedly they eat them, purge their system then eat grass to form a plug.   Backyard oldtimer biology.  Not sure on any of it.  Most of what those guys say turns out to be true, but every once in awhile they throw a doozie in there. 

[Idabooner]

The ones I ate must not have been frozen yet. I had left the boat before first light with a peanut butter sandwich tucked in the back of my shirt (I never packed all the gear most do nowdays) While I was eating that sandwich at noon I spotted a nice billy goat high above me and on the other side of a very deep, steep canyon near the top of Pyramid Peek. It was after sun down when I got to and shot him, he dropped, kicked once and slid off the cliff disappearing. I laid out that night, it was after noon the next day after climbing the at least 1000 yard slide shoot a couple times tracking where he had been airborn most of the time. It was near dark by the time I carried him down the steep rocky Pyramid creek, I was getting very hungry and weak having burned a lot of energy for one sandwich in the last 36 hours. I come across an elderberry bush, I knew not to eat much but one small handful won't hurt, WRONG, in less than 10 minuets I thought I would s--t myself to death, it's a good thing there was only 1/2 mile to go to where Boneaddict and his mother waited to pick me up even though I was 24 hours late.