Cloud shrouded mountains border Geographic Harbor, our destination.
The clouds threaten most of the day.

Support in the Wilderness.

When you're out in the wilderness like this, you need some kind of support. Coastal Outfitters provided that. They sent a launch to the plane so that we wouldn't have to wade to shore. The water was probably too deep in most places for that. The launch took us to the cabin cruiser where we ate our brown-bag lunches and had a potty break. We then left all remainders from the lunches in the cruiser, and the launch took us to shore on the bank of two small rivers. Later when we got ready to leave, we again visited the cruiser and then took all our trash with us.

Note: If these pictures are interesting to you, you might want to check out Coastal Outfitters' web site. They've been with the bears a lot, and have some great pictures, as does The Bald Mountain Air Service web site.

Bear Watchers

All the observers are firmly seated on the ground. That's so none would be taller than any bear and thus be intimidating to them. There were eighteen of us, including two very experienced pilots. More than one of our group toted some pretty pricey camera equipment. No doubt they had hopes of freelancing some of their pictures to publications that buy that sort of thing. We flew in a six-passenger plane, and the others flew in a ten-passenger plane.