American Creek - 8 July 2006

Its been a busy few days. Two weeks after I finally cleared two of our mountain trails with a friend, a chainsaw and a shovel, the snow has retreated far enough to give access to the very top. Stunning. Simply stunning. I must have been up with different guests and friends five times in the last 10 days.

On Saturday, when I went up American Creek with Kristin - the first time we've been just the two of us out somewhere in quite a while - we saw a wolverine. At first we thought it was just a nice, furry little animal and wandered off towards it. Kristin urged caution. Just as well. When we got back and looked it up in our Mammals of British Columbia book it turned out these small animals can kill a lone wolf and even a bear. They have bone-clad jaws.

Bear count: One black bear on Trout Lake road on Friday.