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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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e shrieking blizzards throwdown their mantles of deep snow, thatbruin hunts out his winter home. Manyof these dens are situated in regions ofsuch barrenness that even in the sum-mer time there is no vegetation. In 1910, when we were relaying ourArctic equipment across the ice towardMt. McKinley, we reached a desolateglacial amphitheater twenty miles fromtimber line, where there were severalbear tracks leading toward the lowlands.One night Professor Parker, hearing anoise outside his tent, thought that it wasone of our party returning from a dis-tant relay camp, but receiving no an-swer to his welcoming hail, he fell asleepagain. The following morning the snowtold us that his visitor was a largebrown bear. Many small incidents testify to thesemi-human quality of the bear. Onanother occasion I found the tracks ofa cow bear and two cubs that ledthrough a deep canyon which headed ina group of snow-covered mountains onthe coast of Bering Sea. The cubstracks looked ridiculously smal) beside
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ON ONE OCCASION I SAW A LARGE COW DASH ACROSS A LITTLE SWALE IN PURSUIT OF A SQUIRREL, WHILE HER CUBS REMAINED IN THE BACKGROUND, ABSORBED IN THE CLOSE RACE. 264 THE OUTING MAGAZINE the great impressions made by theirmothers feet. While following thetracks, I found that the cubs had takenadvantage of every bare spot, and hadeven stood on flat rocks in an attemptto get their tender feet out of the coldsnow, very much after the fashion ofsmall boys in the country who have shedtheir shoes and stockings early in thespring. When the bears reach the lowlandsthey usually settle down in a brushy,well-watered valley at the head of asalmon river. Here the cubs play dur-ing the long, quiet, sunshiny hours,while their mother sits nearby lookingout over the dim lowlands, or dozing inthe dry grass. As time passes they beat down trailsand make beds in grassy glades. I re-member one valley that had been thehome of an old cow and a cub. Thetwo bears had made a perfect networkof trails, and I counted s

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