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| Mark and Bob before torn fish head trail litter changed their moods. |
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| Imagine brown bears on hind legs standing behind us. |
Today is a Saturday but it is the first week of school for teachers but you're never given enough time to get everything together for the real "first day of school" when students arrive eager to meet their new teacher and anxious to view their new classroom. So - like most teachers, I choose to come in on weekends to get my work done. It was still a partly sunny day without rain so I put in five hours and took off with Bob and fellow teacher Mark Fraad for a hike down the Iditarod Trail from mile 12 to Bear Lake. The trailhead is a little dirt road on the Seward Highway that is marked for Troop Lake Trail, a thin, short path off the Iditarod. Who knows why the park service decided to advertise the lake verses the historical, nationally recognized Iditarod? I guess trout are really important to some people. Anyways - this section of the Iditarod is "bear city" and sure enough we came upon a brown bear sow and her club down at Bear Lake. Mark was getting his iphone out to take our picture when he looked up to see them both about 30 yds. behind us standing on their back legs. He yelled, "OMG - look at those bears!" I turned around just in time to see their rumps as they quickly disappeared. Pita, the dog, did nothing. I just wish Mark had clicked the picture sooner and the bears would have been in the background. That would have been really cool! I'm not sure this is the best trail to take in August judging by the fish head and bear scat litter along the lake shore.
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