![]() A path created by the footprints of the bears. Our guide led us to a trail of what seemed to be massive footprints, with a stride of about two feet between them, pressed down into the bog and making a path through it. The meadow was actually more of a bog, a low-lying jungle of brushy groundcover about two feet high, barely supported underneath by another foot of soaked moss and peat. "They're sleeping now, through the afternoon. ![]() ![]() Being midday, and hot, there were no bears to be seen. After a twenty minute walk through a spruce forest, we came into what appeared to be a broad, open meadow about four hundred yards across. Our guide asked us if we wanted to go for a hike into the interior of the island, to a clearing where grizzlies were known to feed. ![]() My family and I were sea kayaking with humpback whales in the Icy Strait, and we stopped on the shore of Chichagof Island for lunch. One of the most haunting experiences I have ever had as a man took place on an early summer day in Alaska. ![]()
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