Katmai National Park offers amazing possibilities to hike, boat,
and of course... to see bears. If You're interested in volcanos and
like the mentioned combination, it is amost a must!
We spent unforgetable 8 days in the park, 5 of them in The Valley
of The Ten Thousand Smokes.
These pictures are all digitally extracted from our film
material, the really good ones (nice wide
angle and zoom-picturs) are yet to come, as soon as we find the time to scan the
negatives.
Katmai N.P. Glacial Moraine Naknek lake - facing the
valley... (2.5 Miles east of Brooks Camp)
Asthonished bears seeing their first sailboat..... :)
Hugi - fängt grossen Lachs... :)
Camp at Margot Creek (Baers, baers, baers.... - es wimmelt von
Bären!)
Mamma bear teaching how to catch Salmon
and how to fight....
A great feature of Katmai N.P. is its Grizzly bears which can be found all
around Naknek Lake and its many creeks where Salmon are running
during this time of the year. (...more about
bears - click here)
Many times we were just amazingly close to bears and more than
once we were not sure what was more stunning: The incredible
volcanic and geological features of the park - or its bears....?
...Courios junior bear - checking us
out...
Mamma Bear (hardly disturbed while trying to catch Salmon....)
Margot Creek - 30 yards from basecamp
Expedition to the "Valley of The Ten Thousand Smokes":
Rivers cut deep canions through the ash layers of the great
eruption in 1912.
On the slopes of Mt. Mageik's glaciers
Sand preventing the ice to melt - forming sand domes
Beautiful, but not easy hiking
Sandstorm develop fast and subtile
Lethe river, cutting deep canions into the ash layers
The winding flow of Lethe River through the bottom of the valley
Dangerous Snow bridge over lethe River -- Don't cross at such places!
Beautiful beachtime at the Mt. Mageik lakes
Producing water with a Katadyn-Filter...
Dinnertime: Swiss Fondue!!! :)
Novarupta - site of 1912 eruption, where 30 cubic kilometer of magma was
released within two days.....
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and at last... - here he is again - our favorite junior bear who was
checking us out really close while Mamma was fishing...
