I am back in King Salmon and spending the day with Craig. He would like to go on a hike as he has not seen any wildlife and thinks this would be the way to do it. So we decide that we will hike the road to Lake Camp which is the start of Katmai National Park. It is eleven miles from our house. I know we can't reach the camp but we will go as far as possible.
Craig is not an early riser so we got kind of late start. We covered ourselves with bug dope and headed down the road. We walked and walked and walked. We past open tundra, beautiful spruce fields and dense alder bushes. We saw a couple of birds but no bears. Our neighbors said she saw a sow with cubs down this road that is why we are walking it for that chance to see the cubs. What we did see was our neighbor driving down the road. She stopped to ask what we were doing all the way out there. Just hiking. We got a strange look and a smile and continued on our way. finally after two hours of hiking and five smiles added to our shoes Craig decided to turn around. On our way back we were watching our tracks when we saw very large bear tracks that went over our tracks from earlier. We had just missed a bear and by the size of the footprints he was a big one. I think the bear was teasing Craig as that is all we saw on the hike.
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