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Russian River Falls

Friday, July 18th, 2008

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The trailhead to the Russian River Falls near Cooper Landing, Alaska, is about a 45 min. drive from my house.  The trail, an easy 3 miles long,  is one of my favorites as the rewards (the falls or Russian Lake) offer spectacular scenery and a good chance to see brown bears.  This one showed up just as we were ready to hike out.  We stayed another couple of hours, of course.

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Russian River Reds and Bears

Monday, August 14th, 2006

Hiked the Russian River with my friend Jan. I try to head up there a couple of times each summer to see the salmon jump up the falls – it’s always a cool thing to check out. It was tough to get a shot of a red in the air with the delay on digital cameras, so I just clicked away and took about 75 shots. From those, I did manage to get about 5 good pictures.

Lots of bear scat along the trail – and on our way back, this brownie was heading towards us and didn’t seem to want to get out of our way. We stood our ground (and made a bit of a fuss) and the bear was polite enough to yield the path to us.

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