I've only ever seen one in the wild, here on the Kenai Peninsula, tracks of another in snow going up Crow Creek Trail across from Alyeska ski resort.
We only went as far as the pass, the tracks continued down toward Eagle River.
I had made an attempted interseption of a cow caribou in August. Arriving where I had last seen her, I dropped my backpack for a polk-around, and was tying a bright strip of flagging to it so I could find it again. (learned the hard way! :)) Seeing movement out of the corner of my eye, I turned to look and there was this humungous wolverine standing on his hind legs looking at me from about 40 feet away. So I looked back at him through the 9X binoculars. We had a stare down for maybe 90 seconds before he humped away on his business. I did have my .280 in hand.
What a beautiful animal.
A friend later said the animal wasn't deciding whether he COULD take me, but IF he wanted to take me.
I did have that feeling.
