My sister saw a grizzly bear this past week in Lake Louise. A few days ago she saw a black bear at

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her cottage in Muskoka, Ontario.Ah! Summer in Canada. More likely Should I remind her to stop at the Toronto Zoo and get polar bear scat to put around her cottage and scare those black bears away?

[mackerel]

1. We went to Lake Louise twice when I was a kid. Never forgotten how beautiful it was.

Pristine back then.

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3. I had a summer job at a tea house just above the chateau. Showered in a waterfall. Good times. My

sister said it was absolutely packed with people on all the trails.

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2. I once saw a marmot by the teahouse footbridge at Lake Agnes

Naturally I said to him...

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4. I lived and worked at that tea house for a whole summer. My brothers and sister did too. I know it

well. Believe it or not helicopters would land perpendicular on the footbridge back in my day.....before they built the new tea house with the balconies.

[pinboy3niner]

5. I never saw the new teahouse

It was '74 when we hiked the switchback trails from Lake Louise up to Lake Agnes. A helicopter ride sure would have come in handy! What a gorgeous place to work, though.

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6. It was. Just before my last year of high school. Lots of good food. Wine. Nice people. Hard work.

I got into a huge funk when I got back to 'high school'. The helicopter delivers goods to the tea house. Not people. The pilot who flew when I was there in 1983 learned how to fly in Vietnam.

[Kali]

7. we had a bear (black) track near the chicken coop a couple of weeks ago

can't believe it didn't take any or come back!

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8. Bears will go through anything. Your chickens are lucky.