Hunting Washington Forum
Big Game Hunting => Bear Hunting => Topic started by: Buckrub on August 12, 2009, 09:06:23 AM
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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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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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I picked some black berries and made a cobbler yesterday it was excellent :dunno:
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Must be time if the pickers are out...thanks guys.
Been tangled up with a major honeydoo list and haven't had much time to get out.
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i was up at tonga ridge (skykomish) pretty high and didnt see any berries! That was last saturday...
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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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I was. Actually the hucks are surpassing the service berries at higher elevations for ripeness.
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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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I think it really depends on the freeze.
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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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Ate a whole bunch of blueberries at 4200' last night, looked like the bear did to.
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Went scouting tonight and was up around 4000 feet. Lots of berries up there...
Saw deer but no bear.
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I was at 4600' today and was able to eat berries. Bear dumps showed the same thing.
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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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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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At one of the local roadside bear hunting spots all the blueberries were ripe the other day.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
-Steve
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The berries are pretty few and far between where i hunt. :(
