Just as we were settling in there was a knock at the door. “Just wanted to let you know, we have an aggressive bear in the area.” Wonderful! We are pretty careful about keeping camp clean anyway so no big deal but a bit of a surprise since we thought we were actually out of bear country after all the high desert we drove through.
Turns out the west side of the gorge here in Utah is very mountainous hence, bear. We never heard any more and never saw the bear.
Our animal sightings did include more pronghorn, elk, a cow moose and her calf (chowing down in a marshy spot pretty close so great to watch), osprey, mule deer, hawks, kokanee salmon (that bright red with a green face spawning coloration) but no big horn sheep. They reintroduced them and claim to have quite a few but we just couldn’t spot them.