Skilak lake

After our bear encounter, the ride across the lake was much less eventful than yesterday’s wild ride. For an hour, I sat on the front of the boat and scanned the banks for wildlife. We did spot a mother black bear and cub fishing on a rocky beach. Both went running deep into the woods [...]

Camping, Alaskan style

Our cabin was awesome. It had been refurbished since whatever hard-core, backwoods guy had built it, but the original frame was there. Skip got a fire going and I gladly traded my wet clothes for some new ones. We had steaks that were 2 inches thick and dripping juices into a sizzling fire. The smell [...]

Some guys have all the luck

So after 16 days of trying for a bear encounter of some sort in Alaska, I hear about this story. At the Russian River campground, same place that I spent 2 nights in a tent just a couple of weeks ago, a brown bear attacked a SLEEPING man through his tent and bit his shoulder. [...]

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