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Polar Bear Blog - November 2, 2008 - More Bears and More Snow

While its a beautiful sunny day right now, probably hovering around -2 or so, there's another blizzard headed our way, more north winds and unbelievably more snow. This is a good and a bad thing. The north winds should push the ice back onto the coast, bringing the bears a little closer but hopefully not too close to their seal hunting season. More snow means that it will take a little longer for the tundra to freeze up, meaning a tougher time for snowmobile and tundra buggy travel but probably better insulation for arctic plants.

More bears have come back including Dancer, the closest thing we have to a bear celebrity up here. There are a couple old bruisers out there that everyone keeps thinking are a little too past their prime but keep showing up looking better than ever. Most of the bears this year are in great shape.
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Polar Bear AlleyPolar Bear Blog - October 30, 2008 - Good Ol' Blizzard

Two ful days of snow - something like 17cm in 24 hours... and still going, except that now the wind has switched to the northwest and we have a full-on blizzard - a pre-Halloween blizzard no less... There's really only one bear season in the past ten years that I remember more snow than this one, maybe 2001 or 02 or something like that... I could be wrong...

More bears coming in, three sets of mothers with this year's cubs added to the three or four families already around. Sounds like five big males are hanging out along the coastal trail, sparring now that the weather is colder.