Nice, Bruce! We’ll be heading up your way and points beyond NW in a couple of weeks, returning to grizzly country after a long enforced absence. These photos get me even more fired up. Don’t rejoice overly much on the blocked ATV trail. Unless there are physical barriers sufficient to stop them, the idiots will go around. Here, there’s a massive gate across a FS road into bighorn habitat that over the years has been pulled off repeatedly–they bring up a muscle truck and yank it out. But it’s a start!

I see you have a Badlands pack. I just got one, a Diablo, and so far it’s far and away the best I’ve ever owned.

And those mysterious droppings … Bigfoot! Here’s a recent photo of Him from my game camera …