Animals!!

With binoculars in hand, Ben's trying to spot the mountain goats!

This was an everyday occurrence - - trying to see what other people were seeing on the mountain!  So fun!

This was the grizzly bear that stopped us in our tracks while on a hike.  He didn't seem to mind all 48 of us on the trail - - he took his merry old time and finally crossed the trail so that we could continue with our hike!  Surprisingly it wasn't nerve wracking to be so close to a grizzly - - the power of numbers, I guess!

On our hike at Logans Pass, we saw lots of mountain goats right along the trail - - so fun!

Animal sightings during our trip:

Bear:  8

Mountain Goats:  23

Moose:  2

Deer:  4

How we saw the animals:  5 bear were spotted along the road including when  Ben spotted a mommy bear with 2 cubs - he yelled, "Bear"!  I came across another bear in our campground while I was walking Brooke back to our campsite, Jaelyn saw one looking through binoculars with Uncle Ken, and then of course the one we saw on our hike.  Both Moose were in the water - one was swimming across a lake!  The deer were in our campground and all the mountain goats were on our hike at Logan's Pass or spotted in binoculars from the campground.  Jaelyn says she counted that many on the trail, but she doesn't realize that they were duplicates (counting them going up & down the trail!)