Any bears sited out in the ADK 46

How is the season shaping up bearwise?

Was in the dacks last weekend, I didn't see any but ran into someone who saw one in the panther gorge area i think he said , we stayed at 4 different spots with no sightings ---- yet.

I camped on Gill Brook last weekend and did not see any bear. Of course I had a bear cannister but I did see some brear crap not to far from our campsite. They are there!

There are bears EVERYWHERE in the Adirondacks.

Bears in the woods

No bears- They all went to Florida to work on their tans.

We saw one along the road just after leaving the Santanoni Range parking lot on Saturday. Looked like an very healthy adolescent.

DeadFred told me he saw a moose outside of Blue Ridge the week before.

when i did Haystack and Table Top i saw bear scat up pretty high on the trails, this was on the phelps trail.

on the way out i also noticed some on the Macy-Loj trail..

therea coming...

This may be a dumb question, but how does cooking before 5 pm help?

A buddy of mine stayed near JBL last weekend, he said that people had their caches stolen that night. They had a dog with them, so the bears stayed away.

Hike with Dogs not Bears

Percious,

I had a similar experience.

The mutt and I hiked Marcy, Haystack in mid May. I stayed near JBL and at Slant Rock in mid May. Saw no poop, saw no bears. I heard a little rustling and grunting from behind the lean to in the direction of my food cache during the overnight at Slant Rock. Leo, the fearless wonder mutt, did a little growl-barking and the rustling stopped. I was too lasy to check it out. My poptarts were still there in the morning

My dog Jet ( the one in the front of the pic.)chased a rather large ( his butt was almost level to my chest) black bear from our daily walking area. I had to run for almost a mile through the woods after him till he let the bear off the hook. This was 3 days ago at 7a.m. on the ski slope just outside the town of Newcomb.

Just rent a dog if you don't have one. They're the best bear prevention I've found.

Was that the ski slope on Goodnow Flow Road?

peak_bgr said:

Was that the ski slope on Goodnow Flow Road?

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yes

percious said:

A buddy of mine stayed near JBL last weekend, he said that people had their caches stolen that night. They had a dog with them, so the bears stayed away.

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Caches stolen? By other hikers?

BTW, what is the estimated bear population of Adirondack state park. Is 6000 a good guess?