Trip Report - Anklebiter Ridge

After two long weeks of depressing or enraging news headlines, it was rather refreshing to read a feel good story about a grizzly bear today. Apparently, the bear known as 399, one of the oldest known female grizzlies in the wild (24 years old), has just had another 4 cubs in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. 

And the thing I found the most fascinating about this bear's behaviour was this: "She walks up to a highway, looks both ways to see if any cars are coming and she'll lead the cubs across the highway for safety... And sometimes if the cubs are left on the other side of the highway, she will tell them to stay there in her own language." 

This bear knows to look both ways before crossing the highway! She probably has a higher IQ than most people. 

Anyways, here are a handful of photos from a quick hike a we did a few weeks ago.

  Nothing like doing a jump at the edge of a cliff. Grizzly 399 apparently has a higher IQ than me as well.  Look at the sick air Anita gets in this... :)
 





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