ECHO MOUNTAIN GRIZZLY 237 
head of a little ravine and placed a cake of half- 
burned, highly scented honey just beyond the 
trap. The mother and the cubs came, and 
apparently she had had a hard time making 
them sit down and wait until she examined the 
trap. To the amazement of the trapper she 
had climbed down the precipitous rocks behind 
the trap and procured the honey without pass- 
ing over the trap. 
Knowing that she was in the lower part of her 
territory, he one day set three large traps in 
three narrow places on the trail which she used 
in retreating up the mountain. The upper- 
most of these he set in the edge of the little lake 
at the point where she invariably came out of 
the water in crossing it. He then circled and 
came below her. Away she retreated. The 
first trap was detected two or three leaps before 
she reached it. Turning aside, she at once 
proceeded to the summit of the range over a 
new route. The following day the trapper was 
seen moving his outfit to other scenes. 
Two near-by ranchers tried to get the bear 
by hunting. The latter part of September 
they invaded her territory with dogs. The 
second day out the dogs picked up her trail. 
She fled with the yearling cubs toward the sum- 
mit of the range over a route with which she 
was familiar. Pausing at a rugged place she 
