Hello Bob,
For what it is worth:I been camping in that erea for three sommers there
and i never encounterd any Great gray Owls or even heard any at any time.
Infact we did some Owling there some nights. All we ever had was mostly
Spotted Owls.Maybe Andy Stepniewski can make some coment on this subject.
I am spending lot's of time there right now, try to finding hard to find
Dragonflies. This area is not to much explored yet. I found four county
records there last week.
Ruth Sullivan

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> From: Bob Pearson <rpearson at i-link-2.net>
> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> Subject: great gray owl location?
> Date: Wednesday, August 05, 1998 10:16 AM
>
> A friend sent me this in an e-mail:
>
> "We met a couple on the summit (Observation Peak) who said this is their
> favorite place to hike and they've been there about 20 times before. The
> woman said that the last time they were there, about a month ago, they
were
> in the fog. She heard, called and managed to see a great gray owl in a
> stand of trees just below the summit."
>
> Observation Peak is in southern Gifford Pinchot National Forest adjacent
to
> the Trapper Creek Wilderness. The elevation of the summit is 4207.
There
> are some meadows in the general area but the Gifford Pinchot NF lists no
> great gray owl habitat in this area.
>
> Does anyone know if this could be a viable sighting? Has anyone else
ever
> seen a great gray in this area? Has anyone seen a great gray in
southwest
> Washington?
>
> Bob Pearson
> Packwood, WA
> rpearson at i-link-2.net