Bear paw marks on the wall...
Trip Start
May 05, 2009
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Trip End
Sep 20, 2009
Healy,
Alaska,
United States
Monday, July 20, 2009
Last night the interpretive ranger came into Savage Camp to do a presentation on lynx. The rangers do various programs in the amphitheatre every night at 7:30 except Wednesdays and Fridays, and they are all excellent. So the ranger is just beginning her program when a man in the audience says, "Look!" When everyone looked what they saw was a lynx! It casually strolled the parameter of the amphitheatre and then off into the woods. Mr. Lynx was right on que. One of the campers attending the program told Dave the story as he was coming down the road from the event, so Dave of course corners the ranger and tells her that he will only charge her $20.00 for releasing the lynx for her program. She says that she will be doing another lynx program at Riley Creek on Friday night. Dave says that a Riley Creek lynx will cost her $50.00. Tonight's program was the best ever lynx program – complete with a live lynx
Bear paws on the wall
!Would you like to know how Savage River got its name? Thomas Strand came to Kantishna around 1904. He was part Snohomish Indian and part Finn. When Tom Strand was working in the Kantishna mines he was one of many named Tom, so they started calling him Tom Savage. He did not object to being called Tom Savage and even filed some mining claims in that name. He hunted and trapped along the Savage River for commercial sale of game, and the river Savage comes from his nickname - Tom Savage.
We have bear paw prints going up the outside of the bathroom wall. It looks like the bear “walked” up the wall with his front paws, and looked in the window – which is up quite high by the way. So I guess we have had a peeping Tom bear in the park. What I meant to say is that we have a bear that is a peeping Tom, not a bare peeping Tom… Oh well, you get the point.
Some campers tell us that they have seen two coyotes in the park down by the river. That’s a new one. They can stay down by the river for all I care. I just hope that they don’t have a taste for beagle.
Looking out for those pesky coyotes,
Remington Beagle
