Faye and Maciek's Adventures in the frosty Canadian North
We’re quickly losing daylight, with another two weeks of sun before a month of darkness. Despite the short days, the temperature has been fairly mild… and by that I mean between -10 to -20, which is actually pretty warm for this time of the year here. We even went out on a winter camping trip the other weekend.
We also went out to visit someone’s tent-in-the-woods.
Despite the current global situation, I managed to get my field work done this summer, which completes the final year of the grizzly bear DNA project. I had a bunch of cameras out this year and got some awesome photos of grizzly bears having a great time at the hair-snag stations.
Of course the cameras also capture pictures of other non-target species that come by to check out the stations.
One of my favourites this year was a station that had a family of black bears that came back every few days over the summer. Got to watch these cute little fellas growing up.
A lot of people are asking about animal sightings on our hike. Although there was a ton of bear sign (tracks & scat) along the trail, especially in the first few days, we never actually saw any bears, which is probably for the best in the remote wilderness. We also saw lots of wolf tracks and heard a pack of wolves howling in the distance. We mostly saw caribou on the hike, plus two porcupine and a Dall’s Sheep up on the Plains of Abraham (plus lots of sheep tracks in Dodo Canyon).
