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Post by coloreido on May 21, 2012 7:24:10 GMT -9
How about a new thread regarding bear sightings? Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game with post a temporary red sign with a bear silhouette in areas where "bears present a higher than normal threat to human safety" and are used "when a bear kills a moose on or near a trail, or when a brown bear has charged someone."
The only one I know of is the one that made the news last week. Signs have been posted at the McHugh Creek, Turnagain Arm, and Rainbow trail heads that a brown bear has bluff-charged hikers twice.
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Post by SSO JOAT on May 21, 2012 7:34:10 GMT -9
Good idea. I can take that one step further and we can keep an updated "red sign" location list on the GeAK website, possibly a banner on the front page or at least a page linked from the front page.
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Post by fuzzybelly on May 21, 2012 13:47:37 GMT -9
OK, I would love that.
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Post by SSO JOAT on May 22, 2012 4:54:38 GMT -9
So, who actually manages these red sign postings and where might they have a website with a list of posted signs? Or do they? My search terms are not bringing up anything but news articles about this program.
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Post by fuzzybelly on May 22, 2012 7:18:23 GMT -9
Well we just went to a meeting with the parks and trails group with the Anchorage municipality. And the event before that was on bear aware. Wes would remember who was putting those signs out.
BTW....momima had a post the other day on a cache page, saying she was followed down the trail by a blonde griz. She was at Sunshine trail head working on AKGH519's caches, one of which is GC36RVC.
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Post by SSO JOAT on May 22, 2012 18:51:23 GMT -9
I just saw one of those red signs prominantly displayed at a trailhead on T-Arm at about MP 106.5 whatever trail that is. And in other news... this is my very first post with my brand new XPS laptop!!! Wow, that's a LOT of monitor! This is going to be awesome
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Post by SSO JOAT on May 24, 2012 10:17:11 GMT -9
Well, I guess that bear isn't a problem anymore. This morning's news said that "officials" killed the bear due to it's aggressive behavior.
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Post by fuzzybelly on May 24, 2012 19:39:32 GMT -9
Ya, To bad. I'm sure that's the same one. But don't want anyone getting hurt. I think I'm replanning some of my caching trips for the summer. Hey, that area looks like a great winter snowshoeing trip area
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Post by fuzzybelly on May 25, 2012 19:15:06 GMT -9
Now, I'm sure I heard The Mchugh creek trail head is closed for a couple of grizzlies on a moose feed.
I heard the TA trail is open but not from that trail head. Everyone be careful in that area of turnagain arm trail.
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Post by FlightRiskAK on May 29, 2012 20:56:56 GMT -9
Polgera and I had a caching trip interrupted by the McHugh bear last week so we will be keeping an eye on that one. We have work to do up there! Bear spray: It's not just for the two-legged wildlife any more
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Post by coloreido on Jun 1, 2012 19:18:22 GMT -9
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Post by NorthWes on Jun 13, 2012 8:03:46 GMT -9
SOA/Parks isn't consistent with any sort of master on-line listing of bear sign placement. Neither is MOA/Parks. Everything I've ever posted in the past has been anecdotal based on either seeing the sign myself / the news report / report from fellow cacher.
Cachers posting to a forum thread are the best bet, but the first line of preparative defense lies in looking at the trail entrance signs/kiosks for updates.
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Post by fuzzybelly on Jul 8, 2012 15:38:17 GMT -9
Mrs. fuzzy, Sugar and I went to the Forest Fair in Girdwood today. We had a wonderful time. Afterwards we wandered out to Crow Creek Trail Head, having never been there before. As we pulled in, while still crossing the creek, I spied from over 300ft away, a very bright red sign. I knew what it was as soon as I saw it, thanks to this thread. It was a sign, warning of a bear sitting on a moose kill 18 miles down the trail, seemed a little far for a warning to me, but I'm lazy Everyone please be careful on this trail. You can see photos from my cache log at GC13J7b
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Post by ladybugkids on Jul 9, 2012 7:20:49 GMT -9
It was a sign, warning of a bear sitting on a moose kill 18 miles down the trail, seemed a little far for a warning to me, but I'm lazy Hikers and trail runners routinely cross Cross Pass and go to the Eagle River Center from Crow Creek, covering the 24 miles in anything from three hours to three or more days. It'd be a long way to turn back because of a bear encounter.
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Post by tomanoble on Jul 25, 2012 17:38:01 GMT -9
There are no signs up that I know of, but be sure to practice Bear Aware caching if you go into Baxter Bog in the near future. 5 distinct bears have been seen in and around Baxter Bog in the past few days. A momma black bear, her 3 cubs, and a different solo black bear all within a block of the Bog.
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Post by tomanoble on Jul 25, 2012 18:03:47 GMT -9
Here is a photo I took this Spring in Denali National Park along the trail that leads from the Visitor Center to the nearby Campground.
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