How do you hide a 1,000 pound moose? Any Alaskan that gets outdoors in the winter time will tell you they can hide in plain view!
My son and I strapped on our snowshoes for a walk an afternoon a week ago in mid-March. Some area's 
had nice deep snow about 18 inches deep. The route we decided to take had a couple of steep hills to climb. Modern day snowshoes have really nice spike grippers on the ball of each foot, so climbing in snowshoes is much better than walking without them, at least on frozen ground.
My son was walking about 30 feet in front of me down a trail in the woods. All of a sudden, I saw a moose in the trees about 40 feet away from me, but literally yards from where my son was walking - and he didn't realize the moose was there!
You see, early in the year, moose are tired from spending the winter trudging in the snow - and they are hungry! Moose like willow shrubs and small branches to eat. That happens to be exactly what we happened to be walking through!
I called out to this moose to see if he would turn and walk away. The moose wasn't interested in giving up the willow patch. He laid his ears back and I saw the hairs on the back of his neck stand up tall! That's a
prime clue to begin a wide circle or to begin your retreat!
A hungry and grumpy moose in nothing to mess with!
A summer moose is happy and content often behaves similar to a cow and will just amble in the other direction. A winter or spring moose can be a completely different critter!
We chose to give this moose wide berth - a win-win for the moose and us!
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