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I want to share some good fortune. Maybe not all that relevant but things on this forum have been kinda slow lately. Last week (July 17, 0800 hours) my nephew and I were leaving Goat Lake headed down to Snograss Flats. Progress was very slow because I was cutting steps across the snowfields. We had a lot of rain and lightning the night before so things were just treacherous. We had a short segment of clear trail allowing us to get round a corner when I saw an adult wolverine running straight up the snowfield ahead of us. It ran with a characteristic lope and turned its head in our direction as it ran up the 60 degree slope from our lower right to our upper left. It had already seen us so I yelled to the nephew and he was able to get his binoculars up on it right away. My binocs and camera were stowed away for protection while I cut steps. The wolverine ran with a lope that made it seem almost happy. Despite running straight up the icy snowfield it kept turning its head watching us. Then it was joined by a second that had already been above and to our left but not at all noticeable. And then I lost sight of both. Total time of sighting was maybe 10 seconds. I have read there may be 300 wolverine in the lower 48 states. I contacted a wolverine study group and gave them the details. We really felt fortunate. We had good success the previous night counting mountain goat but it was seeing the wolverine that really made our day. Goat Lake July 17 Red circle is site of wolverine encounter Mountain goat inventory.

*scofftic alert* No video? No pictures? What's up with that? It was probably just Rock Chucks dude..........there are no Wolverines there........... everybody knows that. We discuss it on the JREF all the time! Or it could have been that you were suffering from mild snow blindness and saw the shadows of clouds moving on the snow field. *scofftic nonsense off* I'm envious bro! Awesome!