This Grizzly was in hibernation in Feb. of this year when I stumbled on his den. I was trapping lynx near Saint Mary's, Alaska and I followed a set of lynx tracks that took me right past his den. After a few weeks of working up enough nerve (or stupidity) I got this picture of his while he was awake. I had a lot of fire power ready to go just in case, but the bear didn't seem bothered. I left him alone for the rest of the winter but I did keep an eye for tracks coming out of the den in the spring because I wanted to take my first grizzly bear. I am from PA but I moved to Alaska right after I graduated college in 2006. I came just for things like this! I did some unbelievable things in 2 years in Alaska but finding this bear had to be one of them. Anyway, I eventually caught up with him in the spring and knocked him down at 30 yards.