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    Idaho Spring Bear

    Same. Central ID this Thursday thru Sunday. OnX Recent Imagery tells me that at least the area I’ll be hunting will be starting to get green. Hopefully the weather will give at least a few good breaks.
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    Idaho Spring Bear

    N Idaho around 3,500ft
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    Idaho Spring Bear

    Just starting to green up in my neck of the woods.
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    Idaho Spring Bear

    My .44 lives in a holster attached to my bino harness. Super comfortable and easy to hike with. I just leave it on year-round and don’t think much of it. Walking up on a “dead” bear in a thick nasty creek bottom, it’s probably easier for me to just have the handgun ready than the rifle. That’s...
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    Idaho Spring Bear

    I don’t think lion season will be open during your hunt. Definitely have a wolf tag, though. About the lion thing: if you’re somewhere where the season is indeed open, I would always have a lion tag in your pocket. You just never know when you’re going to stumble across one. I drew the deer/elk...
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    Idaho Spring Bear

    I live in unit 2. We've been getting a ton of late snow. For reference, right now, in my area, anywhere above 3,000ft is inaccessible to motorized travel unless you've got a sled or tracks. If I had to guess, I'd say that it will end up being a normal April/May for access and snow. Your...
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    Idaho Spring Bear

    WA also has a more robust state constitutional protection for the right to bear arms than the US constitution, and that hasn’t stopped the commies from passing insane illegal gun control last year and again this year. It’s a nice gesture but I don’t have much faith in those sort of...
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    2018 Idaho Unit 11-13-18 RMBS Hunt Phase One Continued

    Do you think maybe if I’m nice enough to the buzzworms, I can bring a few home as pets?
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    NM Oryx Hunt

    Awesome write up. This is a hunt that I’ve always wanted to do, and your story confirms that for me. Well done.
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    2018 Idaho Unit 11-13-18 RMBS Hunt Phase One Continued

    Good to know, because I plan on staying exclusively on ridge tops. I always bring trekking poles into snake country and they’ve been very helpful in the past when I’ve come across snakes. I hope the only reason I’d have to get down into the low bottoms is to look for a dead bear.
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    2018 Idaho Unit 11-13-18 RMBS Hunt Phase One Continued

    Thanks for the insight. At this point, I expect ticks to be everywhere in the spring. I live and hunt in North Idaho and they’re thick up here. I’ve hunted rattlesnake country before. Not pleasant but a worthwhile evil to access the country. If I could go later in the spring, I’d be headed to...
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    2018 Idaho Unit 11-13-18 RMBS Hunt Phase One Continued

    That’s what I figured. That the accessible parts of the WMA is basically all of Lewiston’s playground.
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    2018 Idaho Unit 11-13-18 RMBS Hunt Phase One Continued

    Nice, I appreciate the response. I’m going try to start high and get into the river breaks as far from main roads as I can get. The steep nasty stuff. Looks like hell to navigate but also looks super glassable and like prime spring habitat.
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    2018 Idaho Unit 11-13-18 RMBS Hunt Phase One Continued

    @RimRunner @Jdcollins86 Did either of you end up hunting spring bears on the WMA? Depending on how the rest of this winter shakes out snow-wise, I'm headed down there to hunt bears in late April/early May, and I have some questions about access. Feel free to PM me if you prefer. Any insight...
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    Idaho Spring Bear

    Awesome, congrats! I’m going to try to get out in unit 2 close to home a few more times this spring. Maybe I’ll get lucky.
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    Idaho Spring Bear

    Snowline was above 7k in many places
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    Idaho Spring Bear

    Saw a lot of beautiful country, elk, mule deer, and sheep, but no bears. Hunted and glassed hard. I think that the elevations I was hunting (4k-7k) were just not quite green enough yet. The grass and flowers were really only popping down around 3k. I got the feeling the bears were just not...
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    Idaho Spring Bear

    I live in Post Falls, and the snow definitely sticks around up here longer than it does farther south. A lot of the shaded forest roads in the 3k-4k range are just starting to melt out now.
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    Idaho Spring Bear

    Heading down to 21 at the end of this week. Called the ranger station, they said the snow line in the area was at around 6500, so will likely be above 7000' by the time I get there on Thursday. I'll post an update in here on Sunday or Monday when we get back. Excited to get out and hunt.
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    Idaho Spring Bear

    Anyone currently in the North Fork/Salmon River canyon area? Or even the Riggins side of the canyon? I'm headed into an area north of the Salmon River in 21 at the very end of April. If 5000' and below is clear, I think my access and opportunities will be ok. 6000-6500 would be ideal but that...
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