These pictures are from my first trip to Alaska back in ‘21. We were hiking to a glacier when we spotted some activity in the distance as we came up over a hill. Knowing where we were, we stopped in our tracks and backed up a little. We’d found a mama bear and her cubs. She had treed the cubs to chase off a porcupine, which was quite a sight. I grabbed the strongest lense in my camera bag and laid on my stomach at the crest of the hill and captured some of the best pictures I’ve ever taken. It looks like I’m a LOT closer to these bears than I am. The lense and camera are just that good.
She’s just chased off the porcupine and is making sure it kept going.
Then she returned to the tree to pull her cubs back down.
I’m not sure if the cub saw us or if this was just a super lucky shot.
Although the glacier was gorgeous, it was almost anticlimactic after this.
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@BiasForAction My daughter lived in Alaska for years and in Colorado in the foothills of the Rockies before that. She and her boyfriend are environmental and wildlife biology majors. She even did field research in the Anchorage area, so we had a couple of experts with us. Plus, we’d all done enough hiking in the Rockies that we knew what to do and more importantly what not to do. We gave her and the cubs all the time they needed and a wide birth to do it.
