Fair amount of berries around Placid Lake (Indian Heaven), TONS around Chenamus Lake.
Higher up, very few "forest type" huckleberries (ones that grow on 2-3 foot high brush, i know there's several kinds but can't tell them apart). However, on the open meadows around abandoned CCT trail there were lots of blueberry and alpine dwarf huckleberries with big ripe fruit (which is my #1). Mosquitoes were spotty, many around Chenamus and especially Acker Lake, none on Placid, few to none on Bear and Deer Lake.
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Had some pretty good luck up by nesmith pt. last week. I'm really enjoying these babies. I used a new berry rake I got from amazon and it worked well.
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The old CCT track from Rock Lake to Bear Lake in the Indian Heaven Wilderness is thick with berries.
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Enjoyed a small handful of deliciously ripe thimble berries a few days ago, on a north facing slope at about 4000' elevation.
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The Mount Margaret Backcountry is exploding in huckleberries right now!
Karl
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Enjoyed some red and dark blue huckleberries too, but they were few and far between, which made the sole honkin' purple scat a mystery for the opposite reason.kepPNW wrote: We were mystified to have only found one honkin' purple scat all day!
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KenPNW those are some nice sized berries.
Joerunner, how does your rake work? I'd never seriously considered one, as I've heard they can damage the plant. Had a chance to use it yet? Native Americans used a version of a rake.
Kelly
Joerunner, how does your rake work? I'd never seriously considered one, as I've heard they can damage the plant. Had a chance to use it yet? Native Americans used a version of a rake.
Kelly
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Cairn Basin, Eden Park, and Wy'east Basin bursting with huckleberries. Didn't make it as far as Elk Cove, but I imagine its similar. No berries west of there, though, from Top Spur to Mcneil.
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http://www.huckleberryrake.com/Double Tree wrote:KenPNW those are some nice sized berries.
Joerunner, how does your rake work? I'd never seriously considered one, as I've heard they can damage the plant. Had a chance to use it yet? Native Americans used a version of a rake.
Kelly
You just hold the branch below the berrys and run the rake through and the berrys pop off into the containment. I used it a a few weeks ago and gather 6-7 lbs. of berries in about 1.5 hours. It didn't seem like it was damaging the plant any. Every once in a while I'd snag a stem but that was usually avoidable. I'd pick up a few leaves with the berries that was easy to clean out. I guess if somebody got stupid and indiscriminately ran the rake through the bushes then a lot of damage could be done but you would end up with a big mess in your bucket. I didn't get a chance but I'd like to try that rake out on blackberrys.
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Nice! I'm glad to hear it doesn't hurt the plant. I'll have to get one of those. I've never weighed my berries but it usually takes me, hmm, 6 hours to hand-pick 1 1/2 gallons? Something like that. That would be around 10-11ish lbs. I could limit out (3 gallon permit) in a morning with a rake, sounds like.joerunner wrote: gather 6-7 lbs. of berries in about 1.5 hours.
Kelly