Arrived in my camp the day before yesterday to begin guiding for the season. Weather was ugly - raining and blowing and it got worse yesterday including snow up in the mountains. Spent the first day and a half rebuilding camp after a grizzly bear tore everything apart. It wrecked everything it could get ahold of - luckily there wasn't food in camp but anything it could get it's mouth on was full of holes and bite marks. It left muddy foot prints all over the cabin floor and destroyed all the hard work Wojo and Matt had done just a week earlier to get camp ready for us.
 
Today...
Finally got camp organized and set out on the trail into the mountains to do a little scouting. The weather is gorgeous and we made it up to the most spectacular valley in my territory. The sun is lighting up the bright red mountain birches and yellow willows along with the white caribou moss and grey shale rock - it couldn't be any more beautiful!

We didn't see any moose in the valley, but we did have a great big one in camp by the lake yesterday along with a bunch of caribou. We saw a few caribou in the valley today, but nothing really big - we know they're around here somewhere and we'll find them sooner or later.

Everything is going great - the big push of hunters is starting to arrive and we're away to the races for 2009 moose camp. Can't wait for the season to get into full gear!