lucky the bears are on the other side of the creek; or "I think my toes are beginning to defrost"

 

We just exited Denali national park where we expected to find wild life in their natural habitat (or as close as you can with tour busses, campgrounds etc); here is a short summery of what we found.

 

We disembarked the camper bus at sable pass and wanted to hike in that area since we spotted a herd of Caribou grazing on the slopes above us. Another woman by herself disembarked equipped with good binoculars. We used her binos to watch the caribou. We walked together for a while and spotted a golden eagle and a harrier hawk which look incredible. The woman wanted to remain on her own, so we kept walking towards a creek that has actual dinosaur foot print on a rock. The views of the tundra on the mountains are amazing, combinations of red, yellow, green and white and other colors in between.

 

And there, on the other side of a creek stood 3 bears. A sow and 2 cubs. the mom was kind of silvery in color, one of the cubs had similar colors and the other was black.

Again I was the cautious one, but Ranger greenberg decided to walk to the creek and take closer photos, so we headed down in a small trail that was probably made by bears. The trail was narrow and steep and walked by the multichromed tundra brush. The bears apparently had the same idea and they decided to head down to the creek to, directly headed for us., we got half way down and the bears almost made it to the creek, where a bus driver who passed by, called us back, since one of these cubs has a “problem” with the homo sapiance species and might charge us. We quickly went up the hill, and the bears crossed the creek at super bear speed and went up, stopping every now and then to graze on the many berries.

 

We hopped on the bus and the bear clibed up the same route we did, with the darker cub leading the way.

The cub halted before crossing the road and waitied for the rest, then went on the road and approached the bus and stared at it for awhile, then all 3 went to the other side of the road, up the hill and out of our lives…

This entry is too short to describe how owsome it was…… the excitement, the rush, the thrill , and this is just how the bears were feeling, we were extatic. An amazing experience

 

Cheers and happy berrie picking