Katmai National Park. You only get there by plane or boat. We flew into King Salmon on a commercial small jet, then floatplane on to Katmai. We all three shared a cabin there for 3 nights. We saw lots and lots of bears. Annabel and John had a pretty close encounter with a bear that didn't know they were supposed to be 50 feet away... The bears there are extremely well fed because of the salmon streams. There's so much food, that the bears even tolerate other bears and also humans nearby. We watched lots of bears fishing, swimming, and just walking around. We also went on a bus tour to the Valley of the 10,000 Smokes, a valley buried in volcanic ash about 100 feet deep in places. This is from an eruption in the early 1900's. Annabel was brave enough to hike down into the valley. Long hike, several miles, but over 800 feet change in elevation. Like the steps of an 80 story building. She said it was twice as far coming back up! Float plane back to the Angler's Paradise Lodge, and more bears, where we caught a small private plane back to ANC.
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