Bear collage

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Bear collage
Bear collage

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Although we saw the scratchings and the scat on the Mt. St. A Alban hike, we didn't see a bear until the Land's End / Cap Gaspé hike. I'm glad I read up about this park prior, because Maxime St-Amour, in his "Parc National Forillon" book, wrote that while wildlife is relatively abundant in the park, the animals are also accustomed to having people around. The bear sighting was actually a fun story. We were walking along, but noticed the couple ahead of us had stopped. Not sure if they had stopped for an selfie or because of something else, I asked. "A bear," they said, then we saw it too, not far off the trail. All the hikers there would likely be visitors to the area, and so few would have experienced bears before. We chatted about being safer staying in a larger group, the way they do it in Banff and Jasper, and giving the animal a wide berth. The question always is, "does one turn back or not?" And so we all decided to keep going as a group and continued along a side trail, keeping up the noise, with me yelling my "Yo-Ho" a lot. I'm glad we did, not only because we got to see the very scenic end of the hike. They were an interesting couple from Germany, and I got to inflict my horrible German on them for the rest of the hike! On the return, another group spotted a mother and cub higher up off the trail, but we didn't catch a glimpse of that one.

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Taken on: June 17, 2023
Sets appears in:   • 2023 May 28 - Easy hike to Land's End / Cap Gaspé    • East Coast Adventure Day 11 - Hiking in Forillon National Park, Gaspé   
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