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Archery season 2020 1st leg - Selkirks Bear and Wolf tracks, heard Wolves in Harvey crick. Cut one set of fresh elk tracks on way out by Petit lake. :/ One weird 3 toed track too. Pics 1-10 2nd Leg - William O Douglas Wilderness/Cascades Pics 11-19 Only spent two days in there. Into bulls both days. Calling on ridge and something came in silent and spooked out. Made us jump. Had a hot bull at camp this morn at 5 am. But spike only area. Elk sign out of sight. Every step. Wyatts GF Holly came with us over weekend. She hiked with Wyatt for Saturday morn hunt. I also love, love, love my camper....

So now we know why they howl in the night......

@Kiwakwe @norseman Great pics, both of you. Great scenery, from both sides of your country, I love these reports!

Good luck with the H3 BC Witness! Thanks for the reports @Explorer, @wiiawiwbJust back this am from Baxter State Park, mainly a hike up Katahdin and given the campground atmosphere I wasn't expecting any activity but kept me ears and eyes alert to the small possibility. There was a sighting on the other side of the mountain in 2003, throwing small rocks and a good visual of a hairy nighttime visitor in camp, multiple witnesses and well lit with flashlights as it raised its arm to block the light. No such luck for us. Beautiful nonetheless-- On the way up the Abol, a lot of real estate for the Sasquatch: At the peak looking towards the Knife Edge: And Katahdin from Daicy Pond: Chilly morning pond smoke on the way out, a la wiiawiwb:

Personally, rather than ridiculing, I respect and support our law enforcement agencies such as the FBI. Apparently you feel differently. From the Portland field office of the FBI: "Conspiracy theories and misinformation take valuable resources away local fire and police agencies working around the clock to bring these fires under control. Please help our entire community by only sharing validated information from official sources." "FBI Portland and local law enforcement agencies have been receiving reports that extremists are responsible for setting wildfires in Oregon. With our state and local partners, the FBI has investigated several such reports and found them to be untrue." The brave men and women of our FBI have requested that misinformation not be spread and have explained why, as it drains the resources of our law enforcement agencies and first responders. Apparently we have some folks here who don't support law enforcement and want to make their job even more difficult than it already is. Snopes? Why would anybody bother with "facts" if you can only get your "real information" from Qanon.

I went backpacking into Emigrant Wilderness over labor day weekend. I read an old report of a daylight BF sighting on the southern end of the Relief Reservoir and wanted to explore that area. Went in at Kennedy Meadows trail-head and climbed up to Upper Relief Valley. Distance was about 9.6 miles and climb about 3,600 ft. Took me 2 days to climb. Unfortunately, the Creek Fire (NE of Fresno) dumped ash and soot on the whole area on Saturday afternoon and I decided to bail out on Sunday (instead of Monday). At 5 pm on Saturday, I could not see the sun and it was a dark as night. But the worst part was that my mesh tent and everything inside was covered with black soot and I was breathing that bad air. I was disappointed with this trip because: 1) Both lower and upper relief valley had cattle grazing (Don't like cows in wilderness areas because they change the wilderness and make non-local sounds). At least the cows did not have bells, like they have in other wilderness areas that I have been to! 2) Kennedy Meadows during labor day weekend is a ghetto - too many people crowded together (though not many people were climbing 3,600 ft to see Upper Relief Valley) I heard a bear at midnight and at 2 am on Sunday, but my Tascam DR-05 died on Friday (day 1). It was probably far away from my location because the granite walls of that area carry sound very well. My FLIR only captured rabbits, squirrels, and cows. Below are some photos of that beautiful area. Probably best to visit on a non-holiday weekend. There were lots of horse back riding into that area via that trail. So I took a photo of a group of horseback riding on the 2nd bridge from KM.

Same here, we just had a good sized alder go down in my mini-forest. Just stopping by to say love all the field images. Posting a couple from an overnight with family on the north side of Olympics. I recorded some kind of weird vocal which I may post after I ponder it more. Third image is a not clear snow print with toes from Mt. Rainier, taken by a family member on a day hike. There were at least a couple prints, but man sized. Just a head scratcher.