Do you wait for daylight in grizzly country?

[johnnybow]

When your hunting from a base camp, Do you wait for daylight before heading in so you can see? Or do you start up the trail in the dark?

 

[SAJ-99]

What fun would that be?

 

[TheTone]

When I hunted grizzly country for some reason I was way more comfortable walking in in the dark than I was walking out in the dark

 

[crock239]

Dark. But I did get a brighter headlamp.

 

[Kiwi]

I headed out and back in the dark, also with a good headlamp.

 

[Nuts]

I headed out and back in the dark, also with a good headlamp.

Same. Also depends on the terrain. And where I am headed. Most places we are camping low and hiking up. Up gets us out of the trees most of the time as well. So no problem in the dark. I wouldn't do a walk thru the alders for very far in the dark.

 

[LopeHunter]

No. Needed to get up onto the ridge to glass at first light. I may, however, have sang a bit while jiggling a bear bell or two with a bright headlamp blazing away into the darkness as I repeatedly touched the can of bear spray lashed at my chest.

 

[INMT]

No. Hike in the dark. AM and PM.

 

[2rocky]

I've bumped a bear moving in on elk in the early morning twillight and heard him grumbling in the Dark Timber.... I'll never know how close I came to being a news story. It could have been a moose, or even a mouse, but I killed my first Wyoming bull elk 15 minutes later and not much else mattered.

One nice thing about riding horses is they smell bears and point them out when they are close...But if you are afoot and there has been a kill in the draw you are going into....better wait for daylight. Listen for crows and ravens. if you see them circling...could be old Ephriam is there and they are waiting to see what he finds.

 

[rjthehunter]

Hike in the dark for me. If the bear wants to eat me, it'll do it in the daylight too. Might as well get to the elk!

 

[Gulf of America]

If you’re not getting where you need to be in the dark or waiting at your spot til last light and therefore hiking out in the dark, might as well not hunt at all because you’re missing the most important times (unless you can effectively glass from camp).

 

[elkhuntinfool78]

Same as most, I pretty much never see my route in or out in daylight hours