NORTH BY NORTH-WEST
“…A COUPLE OF BLACK BEARS, LOTS OF DEER AND ELK, MANY BUFFALO, ROADRUNNERS IN NEW MEXICO, A BOBCAT IN TEXAS AND A COYOTE IN DEATH VALLEY…”
Have you even seen how a foreign tourist reacts when they see their first kangaroo? That’s how we looked when we saw our first grizzly bear, a massive, beautiful beast. Except a kangaroo won’t eat you. And Americans think Australia is dangerous just because we have a few snakes and spiders.
Over the years riding in the USA, we had seen a couple of black bears, lots of deer and elk, many buffalo, roadrunners in New Mexico, a bobcat in Texas and a coyote in Death Valley, but this was our first encounter with a grizzly. We were in Glacier National Park in the north-west US state of Montana after riding from San Diego in southern California. Known as the “crown of the continent”, Glacier is located in the north of Montana next to Canada and contains glaciers and glacial lakes plus a bucket-list motorcycle ride called the Going-To-The-Sun-Road.
The route north took us up the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California, across the White Mountains
