Excellent point. Survival instincts drive everything. Thinking in those terms helps us as hunters. There is always a difference between where we'd like to find a bear or deer, and where we're most likely to find a bear or deer. Easy and convenient for us usually isn't safe and secure for them.
It's a pretty special place, but the winters are pretty brutal. Nowhere to drive. Cold. Dark. Rainy.
Nice work on the bears. Seems to be a lot of hunting pressure, yet the population is in good shape.
The short version:
Hour by boat. Seven mille hike to basecamp. Two mile hike once the fog cleared in the morning. Found a nice buck bedded under a cliff. Made the shot. Wife and I packed it back to camp. Collected camp, hiked two more miles toward the boat. Camped. Hiked the rest of the way to...
"Shadows..." is by Sidney Huntington and Jim Reardon contributes.
Nick Jans is a prolific Alaskan writer and lived in the area and wrote extensively about it. "The Last Light Breaking" and "A Place Beyond" are exceptional.
Bears are showing up around here. First green shoots are coming up on the beaches and skunk cabbage is poking through. Still a little cool so we haven't yet had the explosion of growth in the southern Southeast Alaska area.
Oh it's getting close.
The last 3-4 years there has been a massive snow in mid-March to delay the budding shoots of grass and skunk cabbage. Been snowing a little high on the mountains, but sea level has been clear for a few weeks. Looks like we might have some green start popping and not be...