A Little Excitement

Doesn't take much to get the whole dorm excited. Just a big male grizzly wandering past the dorm will do it.

Yesterday, it was a sow with two cubs behind the dorm then later up at the employee RV park that had people talking. Someone even managed to get a picture of them (those cubs are pretty darn cute). This morning, while maybe a half dozen people were standing in front of the dorm, the big male came strolling past, twenty or so yards away from where we were standing. He never even looked our way (he'd have had to be deaf not to know we were there). He just wandered past and turned down the path that leads past the small RV park and disappeared.

Maybe an hour later, on the way to lunch, we saw an agitated cow elk trotting along the road and heard that the bear was sniffing around in the woods, probably looking for her newborn calf. She's started charging people trying to walk on that path to and from work today. She's pretty upset about something (maybe the bear found the calf?).

Needless to say, there will be many of us driving back and forth to work for a while.