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I haven't really found any 'good' examples in our recordings I love, but here's another example of what we call jibberish. It was recorded back in 2012 as well. The audio comes from a DVR surveillance system I was trying to leave running 24/7 so when our host would tell us he'd heard activity back at the camp area I would be able to get to camp and review the DVR system on my next visit, to confirm or not if his report was accurate. The DVR and cameras were running on 12vdc from a battery bank I have in the camper bathtub and were kept hot all the time with 3 solar panels I have on the roof. The crappy thing about this recording is that I wasn't there so the system was running on the 12vdc power (since no generator was running) yet somehow there's a nasty AC interference in the audio. Some (not all) of the bullet style cameras had those built-in cheap mics in their plastic housings. That is what captured the audio here. This occurred about 2am and was heard live in real time by a couple staying in camp that weekend. Unbeknownst to them, about 20 minutes before this recording from the DVR (they were camped in a tent about 30 - 40 feet to the west of the camper) a Sony recorder that had been placed in a tree 75+ feet north of the main campsite had been approached, sniffed, fawned over, then ripped out of the tree it was hanging in. It wasn't until the morning that when it was found missing, a circular search around the area found it about 20' from where it had been hanging and the audio was reviewed. Based on the audio time-stamps of both recordings, this was 20'ish minutes after, and the BF approached their tent from the south (having circled around?) and gave them this berating. The rest of the night was silent. Hopefully you can hear the jibberish well enough over the odd interference in the audio. may-30-2012-200am-5302012 DVR audio.mp3

If you only get one shot, yes, bigger seems better. But here's another quote from Clint Smith: If I can get it in my hand and hang on to it, I can fire it. Even inside a collapsed tent in the dark with a bear on it. With a handgun, especially if your attacker is an animal, the most critical aspect is getting it your hand and it fires immediately with trigger pulls. Unlike a human attacker armed with a firearm, an animal must be literally on you. Under such circumstances, if the gun is in your hand, and it isn't a manual single action, you can fire it. A double action revolver works well., but you're limited to 5-7 rounds. The Glock 10mm features a safe striker fire action and a full 16 rounds of hard hitting energy more powerful than the 357 mag out of full 6" barrel, and nearly as powerful as the old 41 magnum. Out of the box, the best lights attach right on, and tritium night sights can be bought for less than $100 and installed with just a small hammer and punch. The gun (comes with two magazines), a Surefire light, a set of tritium sights, an extended magazine release, two more magazines (for anti-personnel ammo for easy & quick conversion), and an Alaska Gear bandolier holster will cost @ $1000. Empty, it weighs over a pound less than the empty Toklat, and it's much less bulky. And when not in the wilderness, and loaded with easier shooting Hornady Critical Defense 180 grain hollow points, it also serves extremely well as an anti personnel sidearm. There's a YouTube video that will take you, step-by-step, through the "25 Cent Glock Trigger Job", an easy smooth and tune job that only requires a few q-tips and some rubbing compound. Sixteen rounds. And reloading is quick and easy, even in the dark, and by a wounded, traumatized man. The 454 Casull 335 gr WFNGC DoubleTap round produces 1800 ft. lbs energy........x6 = 10,600 ft. lbs. The 10mm Underwood 200 gr FMJ produces 694 ft. lbs energy.......x16 = 11,104 ft. lbs. Thought of another way, 694 x 15 = 10,410.........and saving one for yourself in case you're so broke up you don't want to go through the misery of recovery. In years past, Alaskans packed big revolvers. Not anymore. You'll see ten Glock 20's for every revolver you see out there. I'll never get rid of my 44 mag, and as late as this past spring I still mount it on my snowmobile for aggressive moose (I might switch that to the Glock, too) but as a sidearm during the rest of the year, and especially during the night in my tent, the Glock is the weapon for me.

For those of you that have observed these creatures, have you ever heard them make sounds similar to the infamous Sierra Sounds?

I found another tower, but its in disrepair and it looks like they are going to bring it down.

Therr are a lot of forest service roads, so its not that bad unless it rains or snows. The elevation changes create "micro-climates" in the mountains here. It could be snowing in the top of the mountain and nice and relatively warm down at the base. Top Base

Gigantor, I love walking in woods when it is all foggy or snowing. There is just some thing about that that makes me good. Great pictures.

Gigantor...that's an absolutely beautiful area. It also looks very rugged with vertical in your approach from every direction. Your Wrangler is perfectly suited to the terrain you ask it to conquer!

Here's an interesting phenom, and I've noticed this before......one of my hiking areas is close to being developed, survey people doing their thing and old trails being trimmed up for better access. Someone doesn't like this, and over the last few weeks dozens living limbs & trees have been pulled over to block these main trails......too many to be by chance IMO, your thoughts?

Thank you. Sounds like a great area.

This is pass through the Watana Hills, elevation @ 3800'. Tree line here is @ 3000' elevation. No trees above that altitude. It allows great spot and stalk hunting. You can literally see animals miles away. But even then, it's remarkable how they can still sneak up on you.

I have not seen them and heard the sounds simultaneously so you could say I can't definitely connect the two. I have seen 2 for sure, 2 others w/ 98%+ probability, and I have heard "unintelligible voices" 2-3 times. In one instance I thought they were human .. muffled English maybe .. and once it was more "tonal" quasi-gibberish. I think my hiking / bigfooting partner is in the same boat .. with a little more connection. The incident where he heard the low pitched samurai sound type vocalizations, one of them put a very huge hand on his tent and he was able to make out fingertips / thumb tip impressions that were way way way beyond human proportions. The others were roughly 20-25 feet away based on what he showed me at the site a couple years ago. MIB

Yeah, Phil. Phil is on a forum I spend a good bit of time on. Everybody seems to want to think Phil's miracle means it's a good idea for them. They don't have Phil's skill or his luck. When people bring this incident up, Phil gets real real quiet. His message to me by PM was what he did, putting himself and his clients in that situation, was a mistake that should have gone wrong and nobody in their right mind would repeat it. I intend to learn from Phil's mistake in planning, not double-down on his bet. .. just sayin'. MIB

From Clint Smith: Here's a guy who appears to lack brain cells: a fishing guide on the Alaska Peninsula (home of the highest density of giant coastal brown bears on Earth) leading fishermen through the brush to go fishing.........and carrying a 9mm semiautomatic handgun. Now, I'm not quite sure how or why this came to be, but he did successfully kill a brown bear that charged after they kicked it up at extremely close range in the brush. I don't recommend such activity, but it goes to show that 1) the correct ammo, even for hand cannons like 44 mags and larger, is at least as important as the caliber and action type of sidearm selected, and 2) Hitting what you're shooting at while under extreme pressure is the most important criteria of all, whether shooting bullets or nuclear warheads. My bottom line?: I have a rifle on/in my vehicle or slung over my shoulder if I'm not in or near my vehicle, and my sidearm is strapped on at all times unless I'm in my sleeping bag, at which time it's lying near my head with light mounted on it (mounting effective lights on revolvers isn't easy). https://www.americanhunter.org/articles/2016/8/10/alaska-outfitter-defends-fishermen-from-raging-grizzly-with-9mm-pistol/