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I took pains to track the bear. Down in the 

 woods, more than three miles from his coasting- 

 place, he had made a meal the evening before off 

 the smelly old carcass of a deer. He spent the night 

 by the bones. In the morning he climbed to the top 

 of a ridge that rose above the tree-tops. His tracks 

 showed that he had walked about here and stopped 

 at three or four places to look down on scenes be- 

 low. 



: Then he had followed his tracks back close to 

 where he had spent the night. Here he had tramped 

 about in the snow as though having nothing in par- 

 ticular to do. But a coyote was trying to find some- 

 thing on the bones and the bear may have been 

 threatening him. He finally started off, plainly 

 with coasting in his mind, for without stopping he 

 went directly to the snow cornice. From tracks 

 which I saw in this and other canons I realized 

 that a grizzly sometimes goes out of his way in 

 order to coast down steep snowy places. 



A grizzly that I was following one November 

 morning was evidently well fed, for he traveled 

 slowly along with apparently nothing to do. De- 

 scending the ridge on which he had been walking, 

 he came upon the side of a steep southern slope, 



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