Into the lair of the brown bear

[chinook907]

So after sitting all day and no action I did a slow mooch up the creek hunting towards my friend to pick him up so-to-speak for the hike back to camp.  Along the way here's a pic of another trail in the grass.
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[chinook907]

Here's a pic of the larger "pond" when I got there.
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He had some action but that's not for here.

We got back to camp right at dark without any unnecessary excitement.
 

[chinook907]

We hunted more after that without incident and then it was time to start back.

On the way out, just a pic of a large bear p**p.  If you look close you might see a decent sized bear track or two in it.  It was very deep.
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We had one more encounter on the way out.  Not sure my adrenal gland will work anymore after this trip.

[Jack Shanks]

Tim,

 Out of respect for the outfitter I never posted a story of my Brown bear hunt. Better told around the campfire anyway.

Enjoying yours!

[chinook907]

Oh sure Jack I understand.

So as I said we packed and headed out to get back home.  The wind was at our backs again so we were somewhat comfortable that any bears in front of us would know we were there.

When we came to the spot in the trail where I had bumped the sow & cub in the trail by myself, there was a freshly killed salmon laying there.  Fresh.  Not flopping, but fresh, the iris of the eye was still golden.  Apparently a bear had just caught it, smelled us, dropped it and ran (we were 15 yards from the stream, and salmon don't fly lol).

We hustled along to get out of that spot, what a dosvedonya from that place. Took part of a couple days to get all the way out.

We had a great time though, God Gives Good Gifts.  We hunted hard, we hunted smart, and we left it on the field.  But don't get me wrong I'm not done, just for this season.

I better throw at least one brown bear pic in, although it wasn't from this trip.
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And here's a pic of one brown bear hunters kit.
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Had a lot of Forest Gump quotable moments like, "Run Forest RUUUNN", and "...you never know what you're gonna get".  But my favorite quote is the scripture in my tag line.

And just one more from Forest Gump now that the story's been told: "That's all I have to say about that".

[JEFF B]

   

[Steve H.]

Looks like a creek I considered hunting but I think it maybe is not.  I am once again "eligible" for a "one bear in four year" quota.  Intend to go back to my regular spot in May.


I sure hope a LOT of bars get killed in this season.  If so the black bear hunting will get nothing but better.

[rastaman]

Great story! Thanks for posting it up!

[kennyb]

Great story and pics! Thanks for taking us along!

Kenny    

[Cyclic-Rivers]

       

[JJB]

I enjoyed your pictures and story.  That sounds about as exciting as it gets.
-Jay

[guspup]

Thank you for sharing.... incredible

[Lin Rhea]

What an exciting story! I cant help but wish I was there!  

[homerdave]

cool story, Tim. Looks like the hunt is gonna be over monday.
give me a call if you make it down my way....

[DarkTimber]

Always enjoy your posts Tim.  It's the only way I get to hunt Alaska....for now.  Awesome pictures. Thanks for taking us along.

[jcar315]

Loved it!

Thanks again for sharing and taking us along.

[Ray Lyon]

Originally posted by chinook907:
[QB] We hunted more after that without incident and then it was time to start back.

On the way out, just a pic of a large bear p**p.  If you look close you might see a decent sized bear track or two in it.  It was very deep.
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Did it have remnants of little bells and smell like pepper spray?    :eek:  

Wow, exciting hunt to say the least.

[eagleone]

That's awesome

[AkDan]

great story as usual Tim and nice pics!

[Steve H.]

I think the Kenai bears are pretty hard up for food this year. Most of our salmon streams were blown out with monsoon rains a few weeks ago and our berry crop was really poor.  Appears that this one was eating highbush cranberries which I don't believe is the preferred berry,likely not much else out there right now.