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calicokid · Joined: 27 Feb 2008 Posts: 83 Location: Monrovia, CA

Mattmaxon & Enfuego - we were about 10-11 miles in from the West Ford river trail gate off hwy 39 where we encountered the bear. The bear scats were all over the trail at that point. Plenty of water and vegetation in that area. Here is the map showing where that mama bear about (between point B and C):
[url]http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=34.22749,-117.99531&z=15&t=T&marker0=34.13363%2C-117.91360%2Cazusa\%2C%20ca&marker1=34.22515%2C-117.98952%2C3.2%20km%20SW%20of%20Cogswell%20Reservoir%20CA&marker2=34.22749%2C-117.99531%2C3.5%20km%20WxSW%20of%20Cogswell%20Reservoir%20CA[/url]

I plan to do the loop somewhere in June. Earlier is the better, the bugs and the heat starts show up on the trail already.
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mattmaxon · Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 7:00 am Post subject:

Cougarmagic posted a photo over in Flora & Fauna

http://sangabrielmnts.myfreeforum.org/about1379.html

http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=34.228...22807%2C-117.99289%2CScat%20photo

The elevation I recorded was 3467ft, about 1.2 miles from the junction on top, right in between your 2 points

About 4¼ miles from the road across the dam