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Recovery was straight forward though it took far longer to climb to the bear the second time. The sun was shining but it was cool and slightly breezy while DEET did a great job of keeping the mosquitoes away. Several eagles and ravens soared over us we worked, while crows and magpies watched from the alders above. The paws were skinned out to the claws and the head skinned to save as much weigh as possible. As it was the hide barely fit inside a huge internal frame pack. As soon as it was packed it was sent tumbling downhill. With the exception of a single carry for about 100 yards in the middle of the pack the hide tumbled the entire way down the mountain.

With a gentle tug in each direction and no stretching after some drying the hide taped over nine feet long and over ten feet across the claws. Kodiak ADF&G measured the skull at just slightly less than 27 inches.

My rifle with the Vortex 1-4x24FFP scope




The claws are incredibly translucent and the sun was hitting them beautifully, but it does not really look like I caught it.


Over the course of nearly three weeks we saw lots of change come to the mountainside though it snowed more than half the nights while we were out and we lost a couple days to serious snow... But the skunk cabbage came up at the foot of the mountain and by the time we left it was popping very high. Found this frigid shooting star (full common name) on a hot spot hump and it still looked cold...