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Offline SpicyTacos

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East side berries 2021
« on: July 18, 2021, 08:00:11 PM »
How are the berries looking this year? It’s been dry and hot. Thinking gif hitting the eastern slopes early for the opener.

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Re: East side berries 2021
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2021, 12:20:45 PM »
Well I guess nobody wants to share or they haven’t been out to see for themselves either. Don’t need a specific location but a general idea of how they are looking and roughly the elevation they are currently at would be nice if anyone has some info.

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Re: East side berries 2021
« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2021, 12:26:39 PM »
I was up at 6,000 ft last weekend, but on the west side.  I was close to the PCT though, between Snoqualmie and chinook pass.  I saw some flowering berries and some green small berries on the huckleberry bushes.  I didn't see any mature berries.
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Re: East side berries 2021
« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2021, 12:31:59 PM »
I was up at 6,000 ft last weekend, but on the west side.  I was close to the PCT though, between Snoqualmie and chinook pass.  I saw some flowering berries and some green small berries on the huckleberry bushes.  I didn't see any mature berries.

 :yeah: Snoqualmie pass area last Tuesday, 4-5k green hucks popping, nothing ripe.
CDA area on the 10th, 4K elevation plenty of huckleberries to be had.
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Re: East side berries 2021
« Reply #4 on: July 21, 2021, 12:46:16 PM »
I was up at 6,000 ft last weekend, but on the west side.  I was close to the PCT though, between Snoqualmie and chinook pass.  I saw some flowering berries and some green small berries on the huckleberry bushes.  I didn't see any mature berries.

 :yeah: Snoqualmie pass area last Tuesday, 4-5k green hucks popping, nothing ripe.
CDA area on the 10th, 4K elevation plenty of huckleberries to be had.
 

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Re: East side berries 2021
« Reply #5 on: July 21, 2021, 12:57:24 PM »
Picked a gallon of huckleberries last Saturday in the Newport area around 3600 feet. Plenty of mature berries to be had and small green ones as well. 

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Re: East side berries 2021
« Reply #6 on: July 21, 2021, 01:11:32 PM »
I was up at 6,000 ft last weekend, but on the west side.  I was close to the PCT though, between Snoqualmie and chinook pass.  I saw some flowering berries and some green small berries on the huckleberry bushes.  I didn't see any mature berries.

 :yeah: Snoqualmie pass area last Tuesday, 4-5k green hucks popping, nothing ripe.
CDA area on the 10th, 4K elevation plenty of huckleberries to be had.
 

You were picking huckleberries in the CDA area? Stay out of my berry spot!!Sheez next thing you will be hunting elk somewhere around CDA that's my spot!!  :chuckle:


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Re: East side berries 2021
« Reply #7 on: August 10, 2021, 08:50:03 AM »
I just spent the weekend on the east side, up north. There were berries from 4000 feet up to 6000 feet in select areas. it definitely looked like the hot weather scorched anything in direct sunlight. Down in the drainages and in the timber held ripe huckleberries, raspberries and some other random berries. That is where we found the bears.

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Re: East side berries 2021
« Reply #8 on: August 11, 2021, 07:31:56 PM »
I was up at 5,200 ft this past weekend and there were mountain huckleberries EVERYWHERE. Hunted a basin we’ve seen bears consistently in years past and there were no bears at all. No sign either, which was frustrating.


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Re: East side berries 2021
« Reply #9 on: August 24, 2021, 10:26:29 PM »
Lowland black berries are coming ripe and ready. Of course you're shooting 50 yards tops, not 500.  There's a reason almost all of my bears had powder burns!
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Re: East side berries 2021
« Reply #10 on: August 26, 2021, 05:18:17 PM »
The black berries did produce fruit, but a lot of the blooms of other fruit died off in the heat. No bloom no fruit. Also the black berries I've seen have all been ripe at once instead of the stagger you usually see.

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Re: East side berries 2021
« Reply #11 on: August 26, 2021, 06:23:01 PM »
We went up on the west side of Adams a couple weeks ago.  It was spotty, but we found some decent picking.   Was about an hour and a half per gallon all said and done.  My son went back last week and found some better berries further down the hill.  He picked another three gallons that afternoon, but said the commercial pickers were just to the north of him.  I'm sure it's all done there now.  I think the heat got our regular spot, as the only place there were any berries was in the shade on the north side of the trees.
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Re: East side berries 2021
« Reply #12 on: August 27, 2021, 08:53:42 AM »
Huckleberries atill strong. Chokecherries dried up from heat. Elderberries coming on strong now
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Re: East side berries 2021
« Reply #13 on: September 02, 2021, 04:46:32 PM »
Was up in NE WA for 4 days last weekend and the berries are pretty dried up. Nothing up high but you can still find a few patches here and there where there is more shade below 5,000ft we saw 12 bears though and were fortunate enough to take 2 home with us.

 


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