Humans and bears - Wild encounters

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Grizzly Years by Doug Peacock.

Tired and sleepy, I fell into a cold slumber for a few minutes, waking as the fire burned down. I was too cramped and wet to get any real rest. I tried to gain some distance on my current predicament. Every year I have to jump-start my life with something significant to get it going. After Viet Nam, it was no longer sufficient merely to watch the changing of the seasons; I had to mark their passage. Now I log the seasons by journeys into grizzly country, visiting five particular grizzly bears who show up at the same places, during the same months, year after year. My year begins when I see the Bitter Creek Griz in April; then I see Happy Bear at Glacier in the summer, the great Black Grizzly at the Grizzly Hilton, also in Glacier, in autumn, and then the strange Blond Grizzly I first saw the same day a woman was fatally mauled ten miles east at Many Glacier. In late October I drop back down from the Glacier Park area into Yellowstone and check in on the sow grizzly who digs her den fifteen air miles northwest of where I now sat. Reply