From my April 17th snow day on Argo.

Nice wildlife shots the past couple days!

Unlike ST, I've  spotted bear only occasionally in the parks and I can't say for certain that I have ever clearly spotted a wolf... and I've logged @50+ trips averaging 8-17 days up there.  I suspect the discrepancy in our experience probably correlates to a couple factors.  For one, Solotripper mostly travels, well, "solo."  I typically travel in larger parties which simply make more noise that alerts wildlife in the area.  Secondly, I'm thinking the time of year we travel may have something to do with it.  ST is known for hitting the park EARLY in the season, before the intrusion of paddling visitors has made wildlife a bit more wary.  Seems to me that my early season ventures have resulted in some of my very best wildlife spotting experiences but I've not done anywhere near as many early season trips as he has.

I suppose it could also be that he bathes more often than I do, though I doubt it.  My kids will tell you they've seldom shared a day with me in camp where I didn't jump into the water, no matter how cold the water or air got... even in May.

On the other hand, more than once have I been within easy stone's throw of a pack of howling wolves.  The most memorable occasion happened at the dinner hour when my next door neighbor kid & I were camped on the nice island campsite near the NW corner of Darky Lake.  The pack HAD to be just across from us on the north shore.  We never saw them but their chilling howls stopped us in our tracks, sounding as if they were right there in our camp with us.  Later, we saw a moose calf swimming across a nearby channel, so I expect the pack - like us - were fixing to have dinner.

Then there was the time I accidently stumbled into a lynx (heck, I jumped right on top of the danged thing), hiding in the brush.  My son and a buddy and I wre descending the backside of a high cliff (made substantially of quartz) that we had climbed on the north end of Aegean Lake in WCP.  Guess I'll save that wildlife story for the next "lynx-oriented POD" that I see.

Later,

Jimbo   

Today's POD (12/10/22) is a great pic. Once again, here is a scene that seems hauntingly familiar, as if the photographer yanked an image from my fading memories of some badass wilderness canoe trip from decades ago.

Keep'em coming!

Jimbo 

Dead Marshes of Mordor.  Don't follow the lights.

Seriously though, there is something cathartic about that photo.

Geez, Magic, d'ya think maybe you could have gotten a little closer to that big SOB?!

You used that super-magnifying camera lens of yours, didn't you?

Jimbo