SpencerVT
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My wife and I hiked three boundary peaks on Saturday in NH: Mt D'Urban, Unnamed (Snag Pong Peak), and Salmon Mountain.
The good news was the Salmon Mountain was an astonishingly easy bushwhack from the height of land on East Inlet Road. Open woods, incredibly easy whacking.
What was shocking though is that we encountered two moose carcasses. I hike all the time and I've never seen anything like this before. I never encounter animal carcasses, let alone two on the same peak. The first moose was only 100 feet from the canister right on top of Salmon. The second moose was about a mile down from the summit heading in a south easterly direction. You could smell it from like the Andromeda Galaxy it smelled so awful man.
Anyone have any theories on this? At first I was thinking that maybe the moose were shot at the border swath (given the insane number of Quebec hunting shantys right on the swath) and then they ran deep into the woods of Salmon and died. The other thought I had is that is it possible the northern NH wolf population is taking out the moose? I don't know. All I know is that seeing two dead moose carcasses on the same peak within a mile of each other was extremely bizarre to me. I sent these to the NH Wildlife biologist.
First moose, just a stones throw from the Salmon Mountain canister:
Second moose - about a mile down from the summit in a southeasterly direction:
The good news was the Salmon Mountain was an astonishingly easy bushwhack from the height of land on East Inlet Road. Open woods, incredibly easy whacking.
What was shocking though is that we encountered two moose carcasses. I hike all the time and I've never seen anything like this before. I never encounter animal carcasses, let alone two on the same peak. The first moose was only 100 feet from the canister right on top of Salmon. The second moose was about a mile down from the summit heading in a south easterly direction. You could smell it from like the Andromeda Galaxy it smelled so awful man.
Anyone have any theories on this? At first I was thinking that maybe the moose were shot at the border swath (given the insane number of Quebec hunting shantys right on the swath) and then they ran deep into the woods of Salmon and died. The other thought I had is that is it possible the northern NH wolf population is taking out the moose? I don't know. All I know is that seeing two dead moose carcasses on the same peak within a mile of each other was extremely bizarre to me. I sent these to the NH Wildlife biologist.
First moose, just a stones throw from the Salmon Mountain canister:
Second moose - about a mile down from the summit in a southeasterly direction: