Help me ID this track - Black Bear or Grizz

[shaydog65]

Hi All,

I'm hoping to pull from some of the experienced guys on the site. If you have any idea if this is a large black bear or a grizz, can you please let me know? It's 5.5in across the width of the track, and was spotted in Squamish. I would assume this means it's very unlikely to be a grizz.

Thanks everyone.

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[adriaticum]

It's not impossible that it's a grizzly. There are grizzlies in Squamish.
We feed them hikers from lower mainland, so keep it quiet please.

[Wild one]

It's not impossible that it's a grizzly. There are grizzlies in Squamish.
We feed them hikers from lower mainland, so keep it quiet please.

If there was more grizz eating hikers I might have stayed in the lower mainland lol

I hate going by the back but leaning towards grizz. Honestly there is grizz in the lower mainland but not high numbers. Seen them hope, chilliwack, and Stave lake even

[adriaticum]

Judging by the size of that foot, it's either a grizzly.
Or albravo2 with his foot massager

[tinhorse]

Big black bear that stepped in the powder and it puffed out making the tracks look bigger than they are.....

[shaydog65]

Good point tinhorse. I'm sure it puffed out. But the whole time I was stalking it, I was pretty sure it was still going to be a biggie.

I couldn't help but think that the toes go more straight across though.

http://westernwildlife.org/grizzly-bear-outreach-project/bear-identification/

[Eva_Hunts]

That track is f***ing huge! I bumped into a photographer last year not too far up into the squamish river valley who showed me his photo's of a sow and cubs. There were griz tracks everywhere in the sand, on top of wolf tracks, elk and deer. Amazing area.

[Zedbra]

We definitely have grizz up here in Squamish - the COs even posted an interesting video on Facebook earlier this year where they went up to rescue a few people that were chased off their quads from a grizz that was pissed off it was being interrupted eating its black bear lunch. They shot bangers at it and it just didn't want to leave its lunch.

[gunpower]

Looks like a black bear track. A grizzly track will have the claw marks out front of the toes.
I have seen many grizz tracks up here in the Elk Valley in the past 40 years, and that track isn't that big.

[ve7iuq]

Regardless where it was seen, or what type should have been there, the track is that of a black bear.

[olympia]

It looks like black bear but quite large suggesting grizz. The very faded claw marks can be seen closer to the toe pads making me think this is one very large black bear. He could have stood in one spot for an extended period which caused his body heat to melt some around his foot further enlarging the print. The print is faded and i think old prints like to grow a bit

[Quince]

Big blackie. Have round in chamber and check your 6 while followin tracks....

[srupp]

I'm going with black bear..front tracks tell you far more than rear feet tracks..black bear toe prints usually show space between the toes as in this track..where as grizzly toes but up next to each other...
Steven

[dougan]

It's a Sasquatch her name is Judy !!

[North Star]

There are grizz up the Squamish. A few years ago I was hiking through the snow along a dry side channel of the river. I went back to the same spot the next weekend and a grizz had walked in my foot prints for a km.

Along the way a deer had crossed my first prints. You could see the bear began to track off of my path before the deer tracks and veer off in the direction the deer tracks were going. When he hit the deer tracks he stopped and pivoted on his hind feet while shuffling his front from side to side as though he were sniffing the wind.

He then turned straight around and headed back for my tracks and continued to walk in them for another 500 meters before heading off in to the bush.

Hard to tell from your photos but my tracks had clear and distinct 2.5 inch claws front and rear.

[Pursuit]

Always tricky with photos, but, even though they are large, I would say black. It doesn't look like the claws are too far in-front of the toe pads.