144 The Grizzly Bear 



the garbage dump back of the hotel, and for a few evenings 

 I watched them there in order to determine the direction 

 from which they came, and to ascertain how many were 

 using this feeding ground. After watching for a few even- 

 ings I found that there were about thirty grizzlies all told 

 that came there. There were several old she bears with 

 litters of cubs, several litters two and three years old that 

 had left their mothers, but were still running together, and 

 several old fellows that came and went by themselves. 



While I was watching the dump in the evening, I trav- 

 elled the surrounding country by day to see if any of these 

 bears could be seen by daylight, and though I scoured 

 every thicket and gully, not a grizzly did I thus see during 

 some two weeks' sojourn there. In this respect they were 

 much more timid than they were in a great many places 

 throughout the Selkirk and Rocky Mountain ranges. 



My next move was to find out where these bears hid 

 when they were not feeding, for I have never yet seen a 

 grizzly that did not have a home, either in some dense 

 thicket or in some heavy timber or in some high mountain. 

 I followed some of the more travelled trails for several 

 miles and found that nearly all of these grizzlies had their 

 headquarters in the range of mountains around Mt. 

 Washburn. I then selected their largest highway, and 

 after setting up my camera, concealed myself one evening 

 about a hundred feet from the trail and to leeward of it, 

 and watched for the coming of the grizzlies. Across the 

 trail I had stretched a number forty sewing thread, one end 

 attached to the electric switch and the other to a small 

 stake driven into the ground bevond the trail. Just below 

 where I had located, there was an open park in which the 



