Baldy Mountain Outfitters – Spring Bear Hunt!
December 14th, 2008 at 4:51 pm (Black Bear Hunting Story)
I try and always have a hunt booked in the future. This keeps me excited and involved. I can also gradually pay for the hunt without getting in as much domestic deep soup.
A disadvantage of advanced booking is the inability to be available for the unexpected good deal or an unexpected draw hunt.
Next on the agenda is a trip to Baldy Mountain Outfitters with a great friend, Harry Leuenberger. This spring I’ll be hunting grizzly bear with him in his great area, and I’m pumped. Harry, as a kid, helped his dad get this area going and when the time came he bought his dad out and has run the area for years. I met him first about 15 years ago on a goat/deer hunt on a November deep snow hunt. He hunts hard and seems to enjoy my success as much as i do.
British Columbia Goat
Over the years since, I’ve only missed a few years without a hunt to his area. I’ve been fortunate enough to harvest lots of bears, a great goat, a Shiraz moose with a bow, been chased by bears and had dozens of wonderful hunting experiences. Many hunts with Harry have involved my kids on thrilling hunts. One fall my brothers and I hunted deer on a late November, cold hunt and had great success and a great time.
My daughter and I on a spring bear hunt in BC.
His area harbors healthy populations of wolves, grizzly bears, black bears, elk, white tail deer, mule deer, goats and big horn sheep. His area is close to the continental divide just north of Glacier National Park.
Back to this spring hunt for grizzly bear. Harry offers one grizzly hunt each spring and with the grizzly permit I will have 2 black bear tags. We’ll spend our time glassing slide areas where the snow is just receding leaving tender shoots of grass the bears must like. On other spring hunts there, I’ve seen the great grizzled beasts on the slide looking like they own the forest. Grizzly bear hunting has been the object of much political debate in Canada and the U.S.A. This seems very political, as the actual grizzly population is healthy a in most places….a little too healthy.
Micah’s black bear. This is a great story for another time.
Other than the grand slam of sheep I place the grizzly bear on the very top of my trophy to have list.
If I can get Harry’s permission I’ll pass on the incident where he had a grizzly chew on him for a while. He did show me the place, Alder Nob, where the episode happened. I noticed for several years, after his to close of an in counter, he carried a shot gun with him. Below are some photos of some friends and me in our various trips to Baldy Mountain Outfitters.
