Highwood Grizzlies

The threatening clouds were sinking down from the sky and merging with the highway into a grey misting soup. It was rainy and misty and altogether not a morning for photography.

Two weeks earlier, near Lake Louise, a big grizzly bluff charged me! Another experience that will stay with me forever. Fortunately he was on the other side of the fence that runs along the Banff highway.

I watched as he rubbed his back against a tree, looked inside a hollowed out log and got a great shot of him silhouetted against the sun.

That was it for the day; I was definitely heading for home. I had just put my camera away, and looked back and there was bear four coming back over the ridge, still on the run, but this time being pursued by bear three. The chase was on, growling and spitting, they crossed the highway right in front of my car, went down the shoulder and up the mountainside.