http://lightbackpacking.com/2009/09/21/sinkyone-wilderness-elk-on-bear-harbor-road/ Ideas, advice, news and reviews, to help you become "one with your pack" Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:38:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://lightbackpacking.com/2009/09/21/sinkyone-wilderness-elk-on-bear-harbor-road/comment-page-1/#comment-41199 John Davis Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:46:10 +0000 http://lightbackpacking.com/2009/09/21/sinkyone-wilderness-elk-on-bear-harbor-road/#comment-41199 I was thinking that the deer were remarkably calm until I remembered that it is time for the rut. That could be why the male is in with the females, assuming elk behave like our red deer. They may have been preoccupied and annoyed with you rather than calm. Perhaps good that you were not on foot. I was thinking that the deer were remarkably calm until I remembered that it is time for the rut. That could be why the male is in with the females, assuming elk behave like our red deer. They may have been preoccupied and annoyed with you rather than calm. Perhaps good that you were not on foot.

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