Quads and Bears

We did our first tour with all five quads this week. Four went on the trailer and one more - the big Grizzly - on the back of the pick-up truck. It was a bit of work loading and unloading but worth it when we finally reached the summit of Healy Creek. For the very first time the road was completely open, the snow had receeded and the old mines were accessible.

A heat wave has arrived too with daytime temperature climbing into the high thirties. The dogs just lie under the deck panting all day. At night they awake to prowl the property and howl. They bark at shadows, flies and sometimes even me.

Midweek a bear arrived in our yard - the first one we have actually seen on our property. He was a small black bear, probably two years old, and he turned up behind the garage. The dogs slept through the whole thing blissfully. When they finally did wake up, they made a huge fuss, running up and down importantly and sniffing madly like demented coke addicts. But by then the bear had gone.

Bear Count: 2. One, a cub, on the way to Meadow Creek. The other just behind the garage.