This morning I explored a drainage that I'd found on Monday to be full of fine moose habitat. It was extensive willow and shrubby cinquefoil with patches of aspen surrounding. I climbed the canyon to timberline and saw plenty of deer, elk and moose sign. Pungent, fragrant elk.
On the way back I busted a young bull moose from his bed in the willows at about 20 feet. Told him I wasn't there for him but he followed me down the hill for a couple hundred yards.
Check out his spike antlers, about 11" on his right and 8" on his left side. He's just a little fellow, about the size of a big bull elk.
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