A black bear working his way along the lakeshore flipping rocks and munching new grass.  A moose just standing and chewing contentedly.  A black/brown wolf lopping over the hillside.  A silver/blond wolf keeping watch over the roadway.  A cinnamon colored black bear and her cubs.  She was foraging and they seemed to be playing tag up and down trees.  They were so hard to keep track of that we still don’t know if there were two or three cubs.  It was mostly cold and rainy (snowy at the higher altitude) but the critter count made up for the lack of sunshine.

Two small caribou herds live in this valley but they are apparently not real social.  I hope to have better luck seeing caribou in Alaska.