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Timberline Echoes
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Joined: 2004-07-25
Posts: 2055
Location: Eagle River, WI, USA
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Fri Mar 30, 2012 1:38 pm |
 
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mongo1965
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Joined: 2010-08-22
Posts: 776
Location: Rhinelander
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Fri Mar 30, 2012 2:15 pm |
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think I will be doing my caching north and west of home for a while  |
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Northwoods Tom
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Joined: 2010-12-03
Posts: 460
Location: Washington Island
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Fri Mar 30, 2012 2:36 pm |
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Wolf and bear (without cubs) I can tolerate. There's just something I'm uncomfortable about with cougar though... Possibly because I've never experienced one in the wild. Not sure how I would react.
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Doesn't Woodcarver Dan live in that general area? I see a market for walking sticks/big cat defense clubs... |
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mongo1965
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Joined: 2010-08-22
Posts: 776
Location: Rhinelander
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Fri Mar 30, 2012 2:49 pm |
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Wolf and bear (without cubs) I can tolerate. There's just something I'm uncomfortable about with cougar though... Possibly because I've never experienced one in the wild. Not sure how I would react.
(Need a Oh S--- icon!)
Doesn't Woodcarver Dan live in that general area? I see a market for walking sticks/big cat defense clubs... |
lol I will have to tell him that next time I see him. As far as bears there are none around here. We've lived here now going on eight years and still have not seen one. All these sighting are just naked hairy men running around.  |
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Northwoods Tom
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Joined: 2010-12-03
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Location: Washington Island
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Fri Mar 30, 2012 3:34 pm |
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| think I will be doing my caching north and west of home for a while |
If you head west (of Minocqua about 30 miles), you could be seeing bear on a regular basis (lots of skinny hairless men in the area so I must be seeing bear). Last summer was light, but the summer before I would see at least one bear a week in different spots. Wolf are another story. We know they are there, but they tend to be harder to sight. My closest encounter was last deer season about 75 feet away. I don't know who was more surprised. |
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BigJim60
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Joined: 2010-01-02
Posts: 6189
Location: Auburndale, WI
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Fri Mar 30, 2012 3:42 pm |
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| Northwoods Tom wrote: |
Wolf and bear (without cubs) I can tolerate. There's just something I'm uncomfortable about with cougar though... Possibly because I've never experienced one in the wild. Not sure how I would react.
(Need a Oh S--- icon!)
Doesn't Woodcarver Dan live in that general area? I see a market for walking sticks/big cat defense clubs... |
lol I will have to tell him that next time I see him. As far as bears there are none around here. We've lived here now going on eight years and still have not seen one. All these sighting are just naked hairy men running around. |
I've seen plenty of bear in the Rhinelander area. Never saw a cougar, though. |
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beccaday
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Joined: 2010-09-22
Posts: 1502
Location: Waukesha
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Fri Mar 30, 2012 5:58 pm |
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| mongo1965 wrote: |
| Northwoods Tom wrote: |
Wolf and bear (without cubs) I can tolerate. There's just something I'm uncomfortable about with cougar though... Possibly because I've never experienced one in the wild. Not sure how I would react.
(Need a Oh S--- icon!)
Doesn't Woodcarver Dan live in that general area? I see a market for walking sticks/big cat defense clubs... |
lol I will have to tell him that next time I see him. As far as bears there are none around here. We've lived here now going on eight years and still have not seen one. All these sighting are just naked hairy men running around. |
Naked hairy men!!  Actually, we have some hunting land up north and we had a neighbor up there that would rent a bigfoot costume and then walk in front of his friend and family member's deer cam's. You should hear the stories! |
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Northwoods Tom
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Joined: 2010-12-03
Posts: 460
Location: Washington Island
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Fri Mar 30, 2012 6:28 pm |
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| Actually, we have some hunting land up north and we had a neighbor up there that would rent a bigfoot costume and then walk in front of his friend and family member's deer cam's. You should hear the stories! |
So that explains the BFRO sightings up north.
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beccaday
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Joined: 2010-09-22
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Location: Waukesha
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Fri Mar 30, 2012 6:43 pm |
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Yup, not kidding.
And back to the topic at hand....I was hiking in the Kettle Moraine South State Park on Tuesday and I just couldn't shake the feeling that something was watching me from above. I know that's quite a ways south from this sighting, but I still just kept looking up in the trees. Maybe it was just a porcupine. |
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sandlanders
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Joined: 2008-01-18
Posts: 17348
Location: Adams, WI
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Fri Mar 30, 2012 6:56 pm |
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Someone is always watching you from above, becca. And all of us, too. |
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beccaday
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Joined: 2010-09-22
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Location: Waukesha
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Fri Mar 30, 2012 10:36 pm |
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| Someone is always watching you from above, becca. And all of us, too. |
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Mister Greenthumb
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Joined: 2007-02-03
Posts: 2209
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Sat Mar 31, 2012 5:57 am |
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| Someone is always watching you from above, becca. And all of us, too. |
Of course, it's Signal the frog! |
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