Ice Bear

Up in a Yukon, all lake and river will freeze during the winter. Due to some infiltration of temperate water from underground, there is some channel who won’t freeze. Some salmons like the Chum or Coho running late knows it, They will come to use thoses channels to spawn during their late and exhausting journey. Grizzly bears will than come there to feed on them up to December by temperature dropping below -20 C. They are know as Ice Bear, as their wet clump of fur will freeze and create icycles. Despite all the difficulty to get an image by camera trap, it have been even more challenging with mix of cold temperature and high moisture from the stream, without fog or frozen lens. This image show a grizzly bear with frozen fur as it approach the creek feed on salmon.