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of me, I saw a grizzly's nose thrust out of a hole in 

 the snowy slope. Then his head followed. Sleepily 

 the grizzly half-opened his eyes, then closed them 

 again. His shaking and drooping head fell lower and 

 lower, until with a jerk he raised it only to let it 

 droop again. He repeated this performance a num- 

 ber of times. Evidently it was the head of a very 

 sleepy grizzly. Occasionally he opened his eyes for 

 a moment, but he did not seem interested in the 

 outside world and he finally withdrew his head and 

 disappeared in the den. 



After midwinter, and especially towards spring, 

 a bear sometimes comes out for fresh air and exer- 

 cise, or to sun himself. One gray February day, 

 snowshoeing along the Big South Poudre, I chanced 

 to look across an opening from the edge of the 

 woods and saw a grizzly walking round and round 

 in a well-beaten pathway in the snow. Occasionally 

 he reared up, faced about, and walked round in the 

 opposite direction. His den was near by. Half a 

 mile farther on I came upon a bear trail near the 

 entrance to another den. Here the bear had walked 

 back and forth in a pathway that was about sixty 

 feet long. It was beaten down in the snow to a 

 depth of fifteen inches. Two places showed that 



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