Bear Curtailed Walk
And then it rained! Sat Aug 7th An obscured Whistler Mountain Whistler Mountain seen on my bear abandoned morning walk. You actually can't see the mountain because the low cloud and rain has at last arrived. It dampened the dust on Lost Lake trail and produce a lovely wet pine aroma that has been absent for some six weeks. Yes, it was our fifth bear this morning. For the first time I'd let Jack off the the lead as I'd started round the back of the lake with the hillside to the left and lake on the right. One hundred metres further on a black blob appeared at the side of the path. I called Jack back and put him on the lead and waited as the bear ambled up into the hillside. I waited a few minutes and assuming it had gone, slowly continued on down the trail. It reappeared, twenty metres closer and heading towards us. We backed up and watched it head off down to the lakeside. At this point the margin between lake and track was na...