Teej's 2020 Adventures

[kwyeewyk]

Nice glacier lilies, looks like a good spot for grizz bear!

 

[mdeerjunkie]

Great pics! Look forward to following along.

 

[teej89]

Fun fact: when you're trekking log jams to get out into the lake where the fish are rising, not every log in the lake can support your weight. Neither can the one next to it apparently. Good thing it was only knee deep, I ended up with some wet boots and pants.

 

[PA deer hunter]

Quite the change from Pa.! I’m jealous!

 

[CUElk]

I'm not one to be jealous, but you are really pushing it. Sweet pics, keep it coming.

 

[teej89]

Quite the change from Pa.! I’m jealous!

A little different than driving the back roads with binoculars and a milk shake looking at the deer in the corn fields below the SGL where my treestands is ha!

 

[teej89]

Scouting trip #1. I wish I could have more than scenery pics for you ha! I guess that's how it goes with low success hunts.

4 does seen back in the basins we wanted to hunt - a fifth doe greeted us for breakfast

Then 2 small bucks 2 mi from the trailhead when we were packing out.

 

[teej89]

 

[teej89]

 

[Kiwi]

Awesome looking country!

 

[MTLabrador]

Really cool country. That spot with the spotter set up looks like a great place to find a bear too...

 

[teej89]

Really cool country. That spot with the spotter set up looks like a great place to find a bear too...

That's the plan, fall bear season starts up here in a couple weeks. Can't wait to be scouting for deer with a rifle and bear tag

 

[duckhunt]

Awsome looking country

 

[kwyeewyk]

That doe looks well fed. Nice pics, planning to get out with my kids on a fishing trip in the next couple weeks, they want to try a longer hike so doing some training hikes around the house to get ready, that scenery is calling!

 

[teej89]

That doe looks well fed. Nice pics, planning to get out with my kids on a fishing trip in the next couple weeks, they want to try a longer hike so doing some training hikes around the house to get ready, that scenery is calling!

The doe was huge!

 

[teej89]

Weekend scouting trip update, finally saw my first legal buck! And at that, 3, potentially 4 legal bucks in the same drainage!

It was a miserable hike in after work. I was predicting 4hrs and it took 5.5....

On the last stretch I bushwhacked through a not ripe huckleberry field. Almost at the point of exhaustion I stopped in a patch of timber that was EXTREMELY flat on this steep slope. Thought about setting camo until I found this massive bear dropping in it, see boot picture.




View from camp



Only two relatively okay pictures of the bucks, sorry.

Caught this dude for about 10 seconds when the fog lifted and he realized the sun was out full force ha!






Boomer doing some 1x glassing for me:

 

[teej89]

Squeezed in a very brief overnighter to check it a drainage I found in GE. Only 3.5mi in but the trail cuts out at mile 2.5 and you still have another 800' to gain, that was a whammy.

GE bamboozled me too. What looked like a lush green meadow from valley to ridge was over my head brush on the ridge.

Glassed 4 does, a spike and this forkie.

 

[Irrelevant]

No bear yet?

 

[teej89]

No bear yet?

No bears, it's been tough on the last two quick overnighters as when I get to my glassing spot like an hour or so before last light and I get absolutely fogged in from the clouds.

 

[teej89]

Had this basin in mind all summer, finally visited it to be disappointed with no water. Theres one lake and it's so steep into it you virtually need rock climbing gear. Found a beast of a bear but that far in with little water and the hell hole he was in he'll die old.

Oh also 3.5mi of the trail was all deadfall, that was an unpleasant surprise.

The last pic is down where the bear was and our water source I was about 200yd from him, you can see him at the top left of the right most tree