As you know, it's legal to hunt bears in Alaska.
But it's illegal to wake a sleeping bear to take its picture.
We're holed up in a Super 8 in Fairbanks after a longish and very wet hike to some more funny rock formations. This one was through some pretty wild feeling terrain, including some super-soggy tundra-like bog at first and then upwards through some wet young aspens whose wet leaves deposited water all over us as we brushed them aside. Also, it was raining. And yet, still fun in an adventurous, sick, demented kind of way.
Saw a lot of moose droppings along the trail, but, alas, no bears, sleeping or otherwise.
OMISSIONS AND ERRORS
A few things we previously got wrong or forgot to mention:
-- Wrangell St Elias National Park is only six times bigger than Yellowstone, not ten. To better picture this, that's roughly a third the size of New York or 40 percent of Illinois. And about equal to the size of Spain.
A few things we left out before:
-- seen four moose thus far crossing roads.
--In Seattle, there's a tent city for homeless persons on the lawn of the county health services building. There's a lot of tents, and they are all pretty new, so thre must be a public program to make them available.
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