This is where he lay after the first shot at 75 yards. He tore up the ground and lay down half in and half out of the hole.
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Too bad all the shots were with a Nikon digital camera.
We were driving in the south east corner of the Yukon in Kluane park on the hiway and saw this bear sunning him(her) self on the gravel slope. My son first saw it and said bear, I replied no way, as no self respecting bear would lay on a bare gravel slope. Guess I had to eat crow, cause there it lay. Looks like it just came down the bank and dug a little hole so it wouldn't slide down the hill and then just layed down for a nap and soak in the sun. He was only 75 yards from the hiway, and not bothered by any traffic. Motorcycles, cars, motorhomes, nothing bothered him and we were there for about 15 minutes and about 8 vehicles went by. He only lifted his head once, about 2 minutes after we got there. I first thought it was dead (hiway kill)and was going to walk up to it but when I looking in the binos I could see his chest rising and falling rapidly (so did mine), I changed my mind.
Very strange, I have seen my share of bears but never on a bare gravel slope except to walk across it. Great treat for my wife and son as neither have seen a grizzly before.
Here are a few of the mountain pictures along the hiway to Haines Alaska
Smokey
Read down for the "rest of the story"
Too bad all the shots were with a Nikon digital camera.
We were driving in the south east corner of the Yukon in Kluane park on the hiway and saw this bear sunning him(her) self on the gravel slope. My son first saw it and said bear, I replied no way, as no self respecting bear would lay on a bare gravel slope. Guess I had to eat crow, cause there it lay. Looks like it just came down the bank and dug a little hole so it wouldn't slide down the hill and then just layed down for a nap and soak in the sun. He was only 75 yards from the hiway, and not bothered by any traffic. Motorcycles, cars, motorhomes, nothing bothered him and we were there for about 15 minutes and about 8 vehicles went by. He only lifted his head once, about 2 minutes after we got there. I first thought it was dead (hiway kill)and was going to walk up to it but when I looking in the binos I could see his chest rising and falling rapidly (so did mine), I changed my mind.
Very strange, I have seen my share of bears but never on a bare gravel slope except to walk across it. Great treat for my wife and son as neither have seen a grizzly before.
Here are a few of the mountain pictures along the hiway to Haines Alaska
Smokey
