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Hope Coach finds the bear!

+1 on Wool for November. Filson has some really nice stuff, but it isn't cheap. If you look around, I think you can find good quality non-itchy wool for cheap. Underarmour layers are also nice, but for November I'm thinking wool.

Ever find this bear? :-)

The positive is, a healthy bug population usually means there are plenty of bears around! ;-) One time I was bear hunting and bit by the nastiest bug. I'm OCD on keeping my tent doors closed at almost all times except when entering or exiting, but somehow this nastly looking ant with wings got in there and I woke up with it dead on the side of the tent. I must have swatted it like a bear in the middle of the night! It left an ugly looking itchy bite right smack in the center of my chest. LOL

That bites! You'll probably notice on each meal...good luck! Hope you were able to quick enough, b/c to lose all that fine meat would be depressing. Hang tough

I've seen (rarely) a few snakes at 6,000 feet, and heard they live up to 7,000 feet! But hadn't seen any that high yet...Rim Road, wow. I always figured walking around in those pine areas there was no concern about rattlers. I this like the 10 shark attacks they had in NC? :-)

I'll add some questions. Is a tag needed to scout? Is scouting only valid during a certain time period? Is there a way to camp as a way to scout instead, and do you need a permit for that? How about hiking permits? What are the different ways one can scout legally?

Now that they've found a cabin they stayed in recently, I'm sure with bloodhounds it's only a matter of time. They're best bet would have been to stay on the move, but if indeed they were only 20 miles from where they escaped as of Day 17, they haven't gotten far. Hiking distance not easy after being cooped up all those years I'm sure, but they'd need to put some miles on the boots undetected.

SPOTs are great. I've used the old ones for years, make my wife use one when we are in the woods, or if I take a 5+ mile hike alone or with friends. The old ones work really well. I heard of issues with the new, smaller ones. Likely with anything these days, hopefully it was software issues, and the bugs have been worked out by now. A friend of mine who hikes 10+ miles regularly spotted recently for help and we went to go get him, he had a bad battery at a trailhead after a long hike.

SPOTs are great. Don't know much about the newer, smaller ones, but the old ones work pretty good. Heard the new ones had issues, but most likely those were software issues, and hopefully they've sorted those out by new. Benadryl will work in a pinch but if you have an Epi pen around and have a severe allergic attack, you'll be happy to be alive.

+1 on Outdoorsman's & Sportsmans BPS and Cabelas are good if you want something in a hurry, don't mind paying a larger price for it, and ready to spend some time to do it right yourself, but never great for anything you need to depend upon one of the store-employees. Some of them hunt as often as you or I, but I'd guess most of them don't hunt and/or it's just their regular job

Wow. Thanks for posting.

Man that roast looks good! I bet the bears are honing in on that smell fast. LOL Be careful out there and enjoy that Dutch Oven sure looks good!!!

The palmated shed is unbelievable. WOW. Waking up a bedded bear by accident (if that is what happened) would not be fun!

Definitely pretty sweet

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:-)

??? See Edge's Post

Living in a van down by the river!!!

Adam, congrats!!! Absolutely awesome story. Reading it makes me think about our turkey hunt last year and how much fun it was! Reading this one sure kept me in suspense though, b/c it shows all the hard work you went through to get that bird. And I was out on the lake with my sister on Sunday attempting to get her a fish with one hour time on the water (they didn't like the cold), and it was real cold with snow on Woods Canyon Lake at the time! You had to be hunting your a off to be out there in that cold. Way to go man!!!

BigBrowns is reliable on funds.

Gourmet House of Hong Kong has my vote.

Yep, alot of these jobs are inside jobs. Someone broke into my sisters house and stole diamonds a few years ago...when they caught the guy, I could hardly believe it, but then again in retrospect, I believed it. Childhood friend. It's almost always an inside job, unless it's tweakers, or pros, or random.

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That is super freaking awesome.