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FOREST AND STREAM 
May, 1921 
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feet of a swimming beaver. In order 
to do this it was necessary for us to 
remain perfectly motionless; for even 
the slightest movement of head or hand 
would be followed by a splash and the 
resounding smack of a flat, fat tail, 
forcefully striking the water, as the 
beaver submerged. 
Captain Conover’s experiences with 
bears have been very wide, and what he 
tells may be relied upon. He has lived 
among them for more than twenty years 
and, though he has killed great numbers, 
he has had only two dangerous encount- 
ers with grizzlies; both of them worthy 
of record. 
One evening, quite early in the spring, 
he was drifting down an old river chan- 
nel in his canoe, looking for beaver. 
Suddenly, a grizzly, evidently just out 
of his den and very hungry, appeared 
upon a low bank, roaring, and making 
toward him with a purpose that was 
self-evident. Instantly, Conover dropped 
the paddle and picked up his thirty-thir- 
ty. Two quickly fired shots dropped the 
bear, head and shoulders over the bank. 
He was a monster and his hide was one 
of the handsomest ever taken in British 
Columbia. 
Upon another occasion when he was 
trapping he lived in a cabin that had 
a wooden floor and sides of logs to the 
height of the bunk. Above the logs was 
stretched a tent. While Conover was 
absent one day a bear came to the camp 
and robbed it of some moose meat and 
sour-dough. The Captain felt sure the 
bear would return for more during the 
night so to be prepared he unfastened 
the tent alongside the bunk, put his rifle 
into a convenient place, and went to 
sleep, partially dressed. Toward morn- 
ing he was aroused by the falling of the 
stove pipe. The bear was in the cabin, 
and coming at him. He barely had 
time to roll out of the bunk, through the 
parted canvas, minus rifle, and take to 
the nearest tree. The bear followed and 
shook the tree with all his power; but 
Conover was as firmly lodged as was my 
black bear. When the grizzly would 
start away Conover would begin to de- 
scend, whereupon the bear would return 
and Conover would climb again. It was 
rainy and cold and the situation was 
serious for the trapper. At daylight 
the bear departed for good, evidently 
convinced that Conover was not intend- 
ed for him. 
Conover has taken several bears from 
their winter dens, but, at that time, they 
are in a comatose state, and are not 
dangerous. They usually den high, and 
in the shade, so that the first spring 
thaws will neither wet nor waken them ; 
for at this time the hillsides are not 
sufficiently cleared of snow to furnish 
them with food. 
S PRING snow slides are produced by 
the softening of the melting snow, 
an entirely different cause than that 
which brings about the winter slides. 
Often I would hear a distant roar in 
the mountains; and upon searching 
through the glasses for the origin I 
would discover an avalanche of snow de- 
scending into a gulch. This falling and 
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sliding snow has its counterpart in ap- 
pearance in a cascade of water. A snow 
slide resembles a great torrent of water 
suddenly released from the mountain 
side, with a roar like that of a cataract. 
The spring floods in the mountain 
streams come late, long after the snow 
of the lower levels has melted and run 
off. The snows of the lower levels 
scarcely affect the rivers; for the big 
floods are all caused by the melting of 
the snows from the summits. These 
snows gradually settle, when warmed 
by the sun and rain. Five feet of snow 
will settle into one. All the moisture 
contained in the immense banks and 
drifts at the high levels is thus com- 
pressed into a small area, which pro- 
duces a mighty flood volume, when it is 
finally reduced to water. The big floods 
in the North do not come before the 
middle of June, sometime after the snow 
is gone from the valleys and lower 
mountain sides. 
When the shadows lengthen on still 
waters 
Our last camp was about fifty miles 
up the Clearwater, where the altitude is 
about two thousand feet. Here the tem- 
perature, during the last two weeks of 
May, averaged 40° in the morning, 61° 
in the afternoon and 44° in the evening. 
The atmosphere on the coldest morning 
registered 25°. The temperature of the 
Clearwater River was 42°. Most of the 
days were sunny, there being but one 
•shower during the two weeks. In the 
afternoon the sun was intensely hot; but 
toward evening, or when it was cloudy, 
the air was of penetrating cold. I 
found duck clothing, a buckskin shirt, 
light rubber hip-boots, mackinaw, and 
waterproof coats to be essentials for 
such a trip. 
I N canoeing from our camp to the 
mouth of the Clearwater, the skill of 
Captain Conover afforded, in safety, 
fifty miles of thrills in five hours. 
Where water transportation depends 
upon muscles the canoe has no equal. It 
is light and swift; it carries a good load; 
identify you. 
