Drove into Denali National Park at about 6 pm with Ted, one of my coworkers. We got all the way to Savage River without having seen any animals. One of the tour busses was stopped so we stopped to see what they were looking at. Ted was using the binoculars and I was scanning with the "naked eye". We both saw the herd of caribou about the same time. For some reason I scanned further to the right of the caribou and thought "I think there are some bears coming into the picture." Sure enough, a gaze through the binocs confirmed the presence of a mother bear - or as Ted put it "a big mama" - and two cubs (not newborns) heading toward the caribou. The caribou must have sensed the bears' presence because they all with one accord started heading up the slope of the mountain out the bears' path. The bears just kept ambling toward where the caribou had been not really paying any mind to the herd. The attached pix show the bears and caribou but you may have to enlarge them to get a good view.
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