If the cherries hit at all I may go look at Whitman Trail. I have never hunted it in the past, but I have scouted it and there is a ton of cherry throughout the area.

Saturday morning I will probably take an easy hunt and set up on top of Buck Bowl. It is not exactly in the forest, but it is bordering it and there was a ton of buck sign up there last year.

Springgobbler, I know the area you are talking about quite well since I hunted it a few years ago. I did not see anything that year, but I will try it again this year.

I normally hunt Piney Ridge Fire trail, but the prevelant food source up there is beech, and I know there will not be any of that left this late in the season. I may get really adventurous and venture out Phillips Camp Run, but that is a hard path in and out, unless someone has cleaned up the firetrail alot in the last year. I will probably hang out a couple of days on Rich Mountain near those fields if they are the only available food source, but who knows.

Mike, was the Westvaco land that you have the stuff that got clearcut a few years ago? If so, it looked like they pretty well devestaed it. How much did they leave for you guys?

3 guys that used to hunt out of our camp went up last week and stayed in the cabins run by the state. They hunted the areas near the campsite and killed 3 and saw a ton. Unfortunately they like hunting the easy way and did not venture out to some of the areas I like to hunt, so their field reports were almost useless for where I usually hunt.

If any of you guys are passing through the area, and turn onto Turkeybone and see a gold/tan Ford F150 with Georgia tags, stop in a say hello. Our cabin is the 3rd or 4th cabin on the left after you turn onto Turkeybone Road from Highway 15.

I called the ranger station and got much the same info, spotty at best mast and cherries and warmer than I expected temps. Who needs the ranger station when I can ask the experts.

Good luck.