Video of Bear Attacking Truck The grizzly stood erect at the back of the “small paneled Canadian truck” slapping it with is enormous paws, rocking it in every direction. Rounding a curve in his bigger truck, John Friese spotted the small truck parked by the side of the road, “shaking with movement in the back …
Category Archives: Wildlife on the Alaska Highway
Entertainment
Entertainment did not come easy to young men stuck in camp in the deep woods along the Alaska Highway. Edward “Whiskers” Frankenberg and his fellows found that getting bears to eat out of their hands definitely provided entertainment. Whiskers told Donna Blasor-Bernhardt about it for her book, Pioneer Road. Link to another story “The Rude …
Stone Sheep
Stone Sheep, the sight of one—or two or three—perched on a ledge on a high rock cliff above the Alaska Highway will bring your vehicle to the side of the road and your camera to your eye just as surely as the sight of a grizzly. They turn craggy heads with great curved horns. Their …
Bison
Bison? When an old bull bison with a ridiculous short beard and a head twice as big as his backside ignores you, you, by God, stay ignored. And, if he ignores you, his entire herd ignores you. Even if you bear down on them driving a massive tractor trailer truck, you had better be …