Archive for June, 2008

Clark Fork Float

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

We just returned from a 20 mile float trip down the Clark Fork River.
Deb and I had the peasure of sharing the raft with some good friends of ours who were visiting from North Dakota.
It was a beutiful day with temps in the 70s and blue sky as far as we could see.

Along the way we saw many whitetail deer, elk, golden eagles, bald eagles, ospreys, many different species of ducks, shorebirds, warblers, woodpeckers, and song birds.

We didn’t do any fishing since the water is still high and very cloudy but we had a great time enjoying our companions and the peace of the river.
We hope to get on the blackfoot soon.

Bear Season

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Well, our spring bear season wrapped up at the end of May and even though the spring weather was mostly wet and rainy or snowy, we had a pretty successful season.
In three weeks of hunting we saw between 20 and 25 bears.
We had 4 bears harvested and 4 bears missed.
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The adventjure of the year had to be when a hunter named Richard shot a bear on the opposite side of a creek swollen with rain and spring snow melt.
They had to use a raft to get across the creek and retrieve the bear, which was a beutiful chocolate colored sow.
I will have to get Ben or Richard to write the whole story.