An interesting story about the huckleberries found during the 30+ miles hike to the Chinese Wall in Montana: The Chinese Wall Well Worth the Trip …The Chinese Wall is a limestone spine averaging about 1,000 feet tall and stretches unbroken for a dozen miles. The massive curtain of rock face marks the Continental Divide through the […]
From the information we are receiving from huckleberry pickers, the crop is really looking abundant this season. Around the web, stories are coming in from pickers around the area about their experiences in the woods. Here are a few of them: Landers: Huckleberry pickers enjoying bumper crop As predicted after seeing bountiful blooms during […]
Huckleberries are not only enjoyed by avid pickers, but they are a major source of food for the grizzly bear. According to the Daily Inter Lake website, 17-year old Hunter Dana found out how dangerous bears can be during his recent huckleberry picking expedition. Berry picker has harrowing grizzly bear encounter … Dana, of Columbia […]
I know that telling folks your favorite huckleberry picking spot is just not done — at least not in Idaho! But I can share with you the best areas, according to the Only in Your State website, to find and pick huckleberries. The 5 Best Places To Go Huckleberry Picking In Idaho This Summer …Since […]
You may love huckleberries, but if you pick them yourself, you REALLY have to love picking huckleberries. Following is an informative 9 minute video on identifying, finding and picking huckleberries. The folks who filmed this video are well versed in wild berries, especially huckleberries. If you watch closely, he identifies wild thimble-berries, currants and other […]
Who knew huckleberries grow in Siberia? A reader, Alexander Kopeykin, contacted us with this photo of wild huckleberries from the Eastern Sayan Mountains in Siberia, Russia. According to Alexander, this past year was the best crop he has seen in 10 years!! Alexander shares information about the huckleberries he finds in Siberia: We have two […]
Huckleberries are an important source of food for bears, so if you are out picking, make sure to watch! Here is a recent story published in the Spokesman Review Outdoors Blog by Rich Landers … Berry picker suffers bites after surprising grizzly A park employee, while off duty picking huckleberries in the Swiftcurrent valley, surprised […]
I have heard wild huckleberries called lot of things, but ‘crack cocaine of the Rockies’ was a new one on me. Seabury Blair Jr. wrote a very interesting perspective on huckleberry pickers for the Kitsap Sun. Here are some excerpts form his article: Berry picking like a drug at Mount Rainier B.B. Hardbody, my infinitely […]
Everyone has their own huckleberry picking tips or techniques we use when picking berries, but I think we can all agree on the following: There are many tips and tricks to the art of huckleberry picking, but only one rule: never, ever reveal the location of your personal huckleberry heaven. The ‘tip’ above appeared an […]
With the dismal huckleberry crop last year, many pickers are finding the 2016 crop to be much more promising. Reports of huckleberry sightings (and picking) are coming in from all over the Montana, Idaho and Wyoming Rocky Mountain Region. Here is a handful of these reports from the folks out picking this summer: 2016 huckleberry […]
