What IS that...

[Coyote]

I was out for a wander today and found myself in an alder flat. It was typical west coast red alder with swordfern everywhere and the odd conifer scattered about. I found a pile of ferns about four feet in diameter under overhanging branches of a small hemlock. They were broken from the original stem and randomly piled in a mat about four inches thick. Definitely not natural. As I was poking around in it I saw a pile of huge bear turds nearby. They were almost as big as beer cans but not quite. (Sorry no camera so no pics). I've never seen this before. Anyone have any idea what this might be???

[bpeters]

samsquanch

[landphil]

Sounds like a bear's food cache. A buddy and I stumbled across a very large one while bison hunting last fall, took us a few seconds to figure out why there was a 10 or 12 ft diameter pile of mulch freshly heaped up about 18", then I spotted the claw marks in the dirt. No pics, we weren't hanging around for some strange reason.

[greybark]

Hey Coyote , may be this animal like "Ghost" is related to the one in your Rock Creek encounter ?
Cheers

[goatdancer]

Hey Coyote , may be this animal like "Ghost" is related to the one in your Rock Creek encounter ?
Cheers

Hey man, I've spent a lot of time in that area and there is some seriously weird shit that happens in that whole valley..........

[Wentrot]

Hey man, I've spent a lot of time in that area and there is some seriously weird shit that happens in that whole valley..........

Story time?

[Paulyman]

Hey man, I've spent a lot of time in that area and there is some seriously weird shit that happens in that whole valley..........

Que the banjo music...

[Coyote]

I'm still laughing when I think of that one Greybark...

[Gr8 white hunter]

Put up a trail cam.

[greybark]

I'm still laughing when I think of that one Greybark...

The Pinnacle of true Ghost classics !
Cheers

[sawmill]

Sleep in the bed overnight. Then you will know for sure.

[scotty30-06]

Yup spend a night or 2...just to see what happens ;p

[REMINGTON JIM]

Gotta to be a Squatch for SURE :cool: jmo RJ

[elch jager]

Well... if you are within walking distance of civilization... it could be the common Hobosapien... Was there a tattered blue tarp suspended above the site? :idea:

[wideopenthrottle]

last fall, we were checking our meat (buck and doe wt) hanging before going out for the morning hunt (day 2)...

When we checked it, we found one of the deer was gone and the other one on the ground because of the broken meat pole (luckily they were in game bags)....

As we were headed out, we grabbed the one on the ground and put it in the cargo trailer hoping it would be safe until we got back for lunch....

When we got back for lunch, the 3 of us and the dog loaded up the guns and searched the surrounding area to see which way it had come from, tracks, and any sign of the deer....

What we found was similar to what you describe...there was the exact shape of the bagged deer in flattened vegetation, with about 1 and a half to two feet of disturbed dirt all around it.....

It seemed pretty clear that after the griz stole the deer, it ate some near the pole and left a few piles of green puke with globs of fat in it...it then dragged it up from near the river to a spot in the thicker bush and buried it a bit for awhile...we figure that after we left in the morning , it came back, tossed the dirt off to the side, retrieved the buried deer and dragged it a bit further to eat some more ...more green puke piles there too... the place where it was buried looked almost like one of those chalk drawing around a corpse you see on tv

we found the game bag another 50 or 60 feet away...more green puke piles

Anyone else seen green puke piles where a griz has eaten?