We’ve covered the Lower Loop and today we planned to cover the Upper Loop…. Project: BEAR. A bear is the only wildlife that we really wanted to see but haven’t (besides a wolf which is almost impossible to see). Mom and I really want to find a bear – just to see, not be eaten. Dad really has no desire to find one, see one, smell one… really anything having to do with them! He is perfectly content without ever encountering a bear. Ben wants to get up close – every hike his eyes are peeled and his bear spray is close at hand! We picked out one hike today that the Rangers told us was beautiful.
The boys got their fishing licenses so they could fly fish along the way. The drive around the upper loop was gorgeous and guess what – halfway to the hike we saw a …BEAR. It was a black and was guessed to weigh around 200 pounds. He/she was majestic. It was right along the road. It looked at us several times but didn’t care at all that TONS of people had stopped to take pictures of it. The Ranger was a little nervous so we all got back in our cars and went on our way. SO COOL! That was the last animal on my list; however, I still would like to find a Grizzly Bear. That one I really want to see from afar. The hike today was so picturesque. Ben took some great pictures of the flowers that could be seen along the whole trail and on a lot of the mountains around, they were beautiful flowers. 
Along our hikes we usually take several stops for a rest and at two of the rest stops we saw... WOLVES! Ben said he didn’t think we would ever see wolves while we hiked but little did he know how good of eyes I have!!! Just kidding! It was crazy how they just appread out of the timber. I guess we were too quiet and they thought they could sneek around us... little did they know that Ben is such a quick draw on the Canon and they would be tracked and shot - about twenty times each! :) The hike went aong the Slough Creek which the boys fished after we finished the hike and had lunch. After talking to another fisherman, we discovered that where we had eaten lunch, they had run into a big grizzly yesterday. We never saw him though. On our drive home we spotted another black bear, but he took off so fast we couldn’t get any good pictures of him. He wasn’t as big as the other one either. 
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