July 6, 2007: The Bear Encounter Finally Happened

Friday, July 6, 2007

We saw a brown black bear and three cubs, two brown and one black. They climbed the hill far faster than any of us could have. I’m glad we were in the rig on the facing hill.

At the end of the day, because as much as we could tell, the dozer line was the road, we rode in the rig and mapped weeds from the windows for the last few miles. 

We walked at least 8 miles today.

It took longer than expected this morning and some people ran out of water. My microfilter water bottle came in handy. For the first time, I drank water out of a stream. It tasted better than tap water and was cool - much nicer to drink than water that is hot from being carried for several hours.