Bear Hunting on the Alaska Peninsula 



knew the bear trails and the most tempting feeding 

 grounds, and the surest approaches to the game 

 when it had once come into the open. Therefore 

 when I was told this evening that a bear had been 

 sighted, I felt pretty sure of getting a shot. He 

 had not come well out into the open, and was 

 clearly keeping near cover and working parallel to 

 the brush. If he continued in this direction he 

 would soon be out of sight. Our only chance was 

 to make a quick approach, and Nikolai and I were 

 immediately under way, leaving my dog with my 

 friend, who was to loose him in case I got 

 a shot. 



The wind was coming in great gusts across our 

 front, and the corner where the bear was feeding 

 offered a dangerous place for eddies and back- 

 currents against the mountain side. In order to 

 avoid these, we kept just inside the woods. Niko- 

 lai going first showed the greatest skill in 

 knowing just how close to the wind we could go. 

 We quickly reached the place where we expected 

 to sight the bear, but he was hidden in the bed of 

 the river, and it was some minutes before we could 

 make out the top of his head moving above the 

 grass. Then noiselessly we crawled up as the bear 

 again fed slowly into view. He was now about 

 125 yards away, and offered an excellent shot as he 



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