http://mingomorvin.com/onthewater The official expedition blog for Bears Unlimited, Inc. & Mingo Morvin Photography Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:54:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The day before starting my little backpack into the Thorofare Area of Yellowstone I was in Grand Teton National Park. The day before I arrived was a rather brutal weather day with rain, thunderstorms, lightning and fatalities in the high mountains. By the end of the day 16 were helecoptered ... http://mingomorvin.com/onthewater/index.php/2010/07/29/grand-teton-climbing-deaths/ This seems to be a summer of very unusual aggressive bear attacks. The latest is this incident with 1 male victim killed and 2 less severe maulings. Both these individuals will survive and recover from thier less severe injuries. The culprit this time a sow brown bear with two cubs. This ... http://mingomorvin.com/onthewater/index.php/2010/07/29/gallatin-nf-bear-attacks/ The bears are active in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Another image of a bear on a trail has shown up on Facebook. Patty Lanke forwarded Bears Unlimited a description written by the man that took the image and was an eyewitness to much of this encounter. This happened on ... http://mingomorvin.com/onthewater/index.php/2010/07/19/laurel-falls-bear/ Is this the season of ‘Bears gone Wild’? I have been asked numerous times if this season has an unusually high number of bear encounters and provocative incidents. The answer, possibly! I do not know if there is a data bank that counts all North American incidents in a given ... http://mingomorvin.com/onthewater/index.php/2010/07/17/the-montana-report/ I was unaware that all 21 counties in the Garden State have resident bears or bears sighted in these counties. That is impressive and actually very interesting. So as you guess if they have bears they have problems. Near the town of West Milford a bear attacked and slightly injured an ... http://mingomorvin.com/onthewater/index.php/2010/07/01/yes-bears-in-new-jersey/