The weather has taken a turn for the better and we are enjoying some awesome fall weather. My wife and I have been enjoying ourselves hanging out at the cabins and getting ready for winter.

Getting some nice shots on my trail cams.


Got some video and pictures of a nice grizzly family. One of the cubs is quite colourful.

https://youtu.be/qYgEsaiomWs





Started working on building a bridge across the creek. I'm hoping to avoid dealing with freeze - thaw - overflow issues at camp this winter. I'm also hoping the bridge uprights will survive spring floods. But we'll see.

Wish we still has a season. Love to run into this youngster in a few years

I followed the bear sign for a few hundred yards and came upon where the bears were digging up some plants. Probably sweet vetch roots which have a significant amount of calories in them.

The grizzly bears don't cause us any problems at camp. And they keep the black bears away who are a real pain in the butt at times.

My real enemy are mice and packrats.



It's war

Several different bucks hanging around. I'm taking my pa again next week so they're all safe until he shows up.

Looks like the dump this summer

A couple guys got footage of a grizzly digging up a black bear den and killing a cub. Pretty dramatic. This happened a couple hours from where I live.



https://youtu.be/ziib-MZ5IXY

Saw it on Facebook this morning.

This journal is amazing. Thank you for posting

Glad you're enjoying it.

AV - Glad to know it was on Facebook, must mean it happened



I bought this electronic squeaker that gives off a constant rodent / bird chirp sound. I set up a trail cam to see if it would have any effect.





This duo showed up. The video shows them jumping up the tree trying to source out the sound. Might make an interesting sound lure at a cat set this winter.

Believe it was on the ATA page. Pretty incredible.

I was lucky enough to watch a big brown bear boar dig out a black bear out of it's den and eat it one spring while I was guiding. Mother nature at her finest. Experiences that happen every day in nature and just lucky to witness. Can't witness stuff like that from the couch except on the internet.

Gotta love those trail cameras, just ordered 4 more myself. That sure is a beautiful griz cub with that sow. I used one of the old Squealing partner round ball calls last year. I friend of mine gave them to me many years ago.It used 2 AA batteries and lasted most of the season which really surprised me. I caught 2 lynx and a marten off it.

Just got our first bit of snow. Good luck and be safe out there this winter Brian

Pretty amazing to see that JR but you saw it because you were out there doing it.

We've already had several major snowfalls that lasted for a month but it got warm for the last few weeks and most of it melted. I'm off to take the old man out hunting for a couple days in the morning and see who else has shown up on the cameras. Like this guy

I saw that footage on Youtube,"A couple guys got footage of a grizzly digging up a black bear den and killing a cub. Pretty dramatic. This happened a couple hours from where I live". That was really something. Them Grizzly's are ruthless. That pic you had of a Grizzly a few weeks ago, he just looks like he would be some kinda mean too.
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Those battery chirpers work crazy well on bobcats, I'd think they would do the same for Lynx or,Cougars.

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I caught the little bandit that was terrorizing one of my cabins. He went for a swimming lesson and failed


My two hunting partners closed the deal on a nice buck while I was out opening up some trail

Hey JR, what game cameras did you end up going with? Have you figured out which ones work best in the cold?

Gator - JR fired me and I no longer handle his media inquiries. He's hired some hot shot PR firm out of San Francisco. However I will share with you that the Bushnell line has been the best "budget" camera for winter use using duracells If money is no object its hard to beat Reconyxx. With all cameras the trick is the battery temperature, when it hits 40 below no camera will operate well. I'm looking at trying larger batteries with solar panels this winter but the days are short!

I'm pumped up as trapping season in pretty much open for all species. Our Alberta coyotes are hitting $150 so a few dozen of them would be nice. i don't have many of them out on the mountain trapline but I think I'll target some around home here on land I have access too. My trapline is better in December so i'll mess around here.

A couple guys I went to school with 45 years ago ( Holy crap you young guys its true that time flies) and I are going to set up a wall tent hunting camp this week. It's going to -20 and we've had snow the last three days so conditions are perfect. We'll go out Nov 17th and hunt for a week. I've filled my elk tag so my goal is to kill a deer with my great grandpas Marlin 38-55.

This was the 100+ year old trail I was clearing out when the boys dropped a deer. This is an open section, much of it is choked with alder and willows which i cleared out. I want to keep the old trails open on my trapline.