Sunday, August 12, 2007

Black Bears Stealing the Show At the Glacier Visitor Center


A female black bear catches a sockeye salmon in Steep Creek near the Mendenhall Glacier. She soon disappeared into the bushes to share it with her two young cubs.

The black bears (some cinnamon and some black in color) have been stealing the show lately for all of the cruise ship tourists who visit the glacier. We can count on their appearance pretty much daily on the Steep Creek trail near the visitor center. Some days there are five and most of the days, the mother black bear brings her two one-year-old cubs to the creekside to feed on the spawning sockeye salmon. People love it.


— Christopher

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