Hunting Washington Forum
Big Game Hunting => Bear Hunting => Topic started by: let.it.fly on June 30, 2009, 11:58:43 AM
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anyone had any luck for bear or cat up there?
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never heard of it.
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north of rainier, slightly southwest of 410??
haller pass.
i had to google it.
:dunno:
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I think its near sun top...its as good as anywhere else out there :dunno:
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theirs both in the area but its no gimme
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thanks guys, im gona head up there this saturday and do some glassing and poking around.
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I used to hunt around there when I lived on the west side. It's kind of grown up and thick now - if you go up the Huckleberry (73 Road) and then back towards Haller Pass there are a few good clearcuts. I was out grouse hunting and talked to a guy up there 5 or 6 years ago dragging about a 100 pound bear down to the road - his boy had shot the thing. He told me it was his family's second bear up there that year, but they were both pretty small.
I used to see some elk up there from time to time and a few deer, too. Of course, elk is permit only now. I personally never saw any live bears in that particular area...that one that guy was dragging down to the road was the first one I'd seen.
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There cat population is a little slim up there. The bear are pretty thick in there though. But so is the brush now that Weyerhauser sold and the logging has stopped up there.
There are a few good places to glass. But not like it used to be.
As far as big game. It was a favorite place for the Muckleshoots to elk and deer hunt. And the big game hunting reflects it big time.