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Just returned from 2nd trip to Alaska in the last 8 months.  Tough country.  Amazing hunting.  -15 degrees when I got to Aleknagik; warmed up to +3 the next day; then to more Spring time temps there (between 20 and 40).  10 days of 10-12 hours a day; averaging about 70 miles a day.  Record snowfall this year so the bears came out late.  The 1st 6 days no sign of bear.  Saw tracks on day 7; they were a day old after 3 hours on snowshoes to climb up to them.  Saw a den on day 8; snowshoed up only to discover a sow and cubs.  Day 9 late in the day saw a den on the back side of the same mountain from about 7 miles away while on Lake Nunavaugaluk.  Couldn't get to it that day; no natural pass to go around the West side of that mountain given the melting snow conditions; the "bridges" over the creeks were melting and snow/slush in the valley's just not passable.   Buried the guides  machine about 2/3 of the way up a mountain knob...took an hour to dig it out and get it off the mountain and by then too late for further pursuit.  Next morning, went South-East around the mountain; took 5 hours to work thru the woodlands to a lower ridgeline to be able to move around to glass the den.  The den was up at about the 1100 foot level on the mountain; so it wasn't going to be any fun to climb.  At about 800 yards out, you could see the bear out of the den near the bottom of the mountain.  Boy was I happy...that meant no snowshoes.  Wind coming off the mountain in our face at ~25mph worked in our favor from both a noise and scent standpoint.  Got to ~150 yds and stopped to make the shot before the slope got too steep.  This state has unbelievably tough hunting conditions.  Worth every bit of the effort.

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8 hours ago, Mikey said:

Congratulations! I've never been to Alaska, though I have family in Anchorage. Maybe some day....

Well, that is also a tough place to live.  When I landed there it was -6 with 30 mph winds.  

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Brother-in-law loved it up there.

But mosquitoes the size of tarantulas and just as vicious. hahaha

 

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12 hours ago, AURex said:

Brother-in-law loved it up there.

But mosquitoes the size of tarantulas and just as vicious. hahaha

 

My mom said same thing.  hahahaha

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