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Title: Grizzly Track???
Post by: shanevg on May 18, 2009, 10:50:57 PM: Went hiking this past weekend with my wife near North Cascades National Park and came across these tracks in the snow. I thought they were pretty big (my foot is a size 10.5), what do you guys think? Any chance it could be from a grizz?
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Post by: jager on May 18, 2009, 11:10:20 PM: Hard to tell but, looks like a melted lion track to me. My :twocents:
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Post by: boneaddict on May 19, 2009, 03:23:03 AM: My vote was for a big lion.
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Post by: cohoho on May 19, 2009, 12:53:06 PM: I realize the snow melted it a bit, but I'm not thinking Griz track, no claw marks of any kind, really rounded, I have to go with what is stated above...
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Post by: Dmanmastertracker on May 19, 2009, 01:29:45 PM: No claws, couldn't be a grizz. Big cat.
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Post by: saylean on May 19, 2009, 01:31:42 PM: im with the rest...melted out kitty track
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Post by: Dmanmastertracker on May 19, 2009, 01:37:10 PM: I've only been in one area where I thought there might be grizz around, up near Republic, within 30 miles of the border I was on a mountaintop in the heart of the NF many years ago, I found an area where a very tall bear had torn up bark well above my head and found some bear piles that looked like an elephant. If it was a blackie, it was a monster.
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Post by: Dmanmastertracker on May 19, 2009, 01:41:00 PM: I take that back, one other I recall was Bead lake, right on the Idaho border, where there was a rather large "beware of grizzlies" sign. :chuckle:
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Post by: shanevg on May 19, 2009, 01:41:59 PM: Would claw marks still be easily visible after melting out that much? Assuming it is a cat track, isn't that pretty darn big?
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Post by: Dmanmastertracker on May 19, 2009, 01:45:48 PM: Yes and no. A large grizzly will have 3 1/2" claws and you will always see the marks. A big cat, has oversized feet and you'll never see the claws in the tracks.
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Post by: hogsniper on May 19, 2009, 01:46:17 PM: Heres a griz track in the snow. I would say cat track posted above also!
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Post by: hogsniper on May 19, 2009, 01:48:05 PM: From another angle.
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Post by: alecvg on May 19, 2009, 03:50:59 PM: First glance, I thought cat track, second glance, still cat track...
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Post by: Grizzlykiller on May 19, 2009, 09:52:54 PM: Haven't seen too many cat tracks but I've seen a fair amount of grizzly tracks.
Heres the front and rear of the bear I killed last wednesday.
Just for reference.
Front.
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv69%2Fbandcgrizzly%2Fbear10.jpg&hash=69defbab49fcea318937374c29c508ec6ca2f090)
Back
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv69%2Fbandcgrizzly%2Fbear12.jpg&hash=0230fe7afdb933ef774dec3bdd207165ed8fd7f8)

(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv69%2Fbandcgrizzly%2F4symbols.gif&hash=f470673a36ce40cb3ba23212710a8d4eb746c5a9)
Title: Re: Grizzly Track???
Post by: TeacherMan on May 19, 2009, 10:09:38 PM: last wednesday, time for a story....
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Post by: EastWaViking on May 19, 2009, 10:12:37 PM: I would say cat track. I've seen grizzly tracks in the snow.... only minutes old, if that. We were deer hunting up by sullivan lake in NE WA several years ago and we kept smelling a faint musty sweet smell, after at least a half hour of hiking and smelling the stink off and on, we cut down a ridge and just inside the timber were fresh grizzly tracks, he had been following us and headed down hill when we got close to him. There is no mistaking a grizzly track!