I have had to postpone the 2010 expedition for this summer due to lack of proper funding and some other procedural issues that have cropped up. I hope to get this thing back on track the following summer, 2011. The funding issues deal with establishing safety standards for self rescue, as I do not accept publicly funded rescue efforts. My expeditions are difficult and in some very remote and danderous places. I have no right to ask others to save my butt for my ambitions and goals. Even when I tore my shoulders up on the Yukon this past summer I effected a self rescue that entailed kayaking 300 miles on a torn rotator. I loved every minute of it though.

I do have a plan B operation already established. This entails backpacking and kayaking into the remote sections of Throughfare River and Bechler areas of Yellowstone. I will video, take still photographs and research black and brown bears in these areas. I will stay in the these backcountry areas for 3 weeks each for a total of 6 weeks in the bush. Bechler is the remotest wilderness in the lower 48 so I am sure it will please me. Not Alaska but still pretty wild.

At the end I will interview park biologists and write a report on the health of the wilderness and the inhabitants. Should be a fun and energetic hike. I will also fish many of these back waters, climb a couple 11,000 plus peaks and visit with river otters, bears, moose, elk, bison, eagles, osprey and many other species will be seen and photographed. I will probably hike close to 300 miles in the 6 weeks searching out and documenting all the areas that I visit.

Continue to visit the website as I will add pictures and add to the discourse on bears and the environment.