Molly and the Brownie

Last week, we went on our first camping trip of the year, and since I'm housesitting for T and J, I'm in charge of Molly so she came along to join in the fun! She proved to be a very good watch dog, not to mention an amazing bear dog... About an hour after we got there, I noticed she was perked right up, whining, staring straight across the river. We thought it was just birds at first, but she would not break her concentration for anything, so we checked it out, and sure enough, there was a little brown bear across the river! Not a baby...but not full-grown either. And the funny thing is, it only had 3 legs! Talking to another guy in the campground, I guess it's one that hangs out in that area a lot.

This wasn't the first exciting thing that happened on this camping trip...about 15 minutes after we got there, a helicopter came over the trees across the river, and proceeded to land in the middle of the campground, less than 40 yards from our tent! There were a couple Fish & Game guys in it who had gone out to check out the lake and streams and see how much of the ice had melted off already. They managed to blow up quite a bit of dirt in the process, so much that our campfire almost went out, and my contacts weren't the same for the remainder of the trip!

So it was definitely a very eventful camping trip, not to mention the weather was beautiful, sunny and around 70, which is better than most of the weather we had for the entirety of last summer! :)