Thursday, August 20, 2009

Golden




Golden was fun-cabin was good for all 10 of us, plus 3 others at times. Despite the knee injury, I managed to go biking and fall off bike-resulting in several whopping bruises-like 10 cm long and at least 6 of them. ON the other hand we went for a few hikes-which was nice-to waterfall and Mom, Laura, and I went to the top of kicking horse ski resort by gondola (when those who had good knees-Theresa- and more courage went white water rafting)and saw Boo-resident grizzly in his 22 acre enclosure-so awesome!! Laura had to restrain me from jumping fence to hug him. He forages for food with a few supplements dropped from the gondola

which goes over top. But they have stopped doing this as he has figured out gondola=food and waits with his back against a tree stump waiting for it. They spread it out over his area so he has to look for it as he would in the wild. He was an orphaned cub whose Mom got shot. They have biologists studying him to see if cubs learn what they need in order to survive without having their Mom teach them. Apparently Boo has learnt. He isn't socialized to people, other thna to wander by perimeter of his fenced enclosure-looking at humans with disinterest.


Seeing MH cousins was really good-we laughed a lot and played some guitar hero.


1 Comments:

Blogger Theresa said...

Good thing bears sleep in the winter or the skiiers would be in peril. It might be daunting to see a bear pacing underneath you as you travel up the hill.

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