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Kayaking to see bears at Alaska’s Pack Creek, Alaska magazine, Aug. 2015

Kayaking to see bears at Alaska’s Pack Creek, Alaska magazine, Aug. 2015

by Michael Shapiro | Nov 11, 2015 | Blog, Sports, Stories, Travel

There are a number of places in Alaska where you can see bears, but when I heard that Admiralty Island near Juneau has a protected bear reserve and that the best way to get there is by paddling a kayak for a couple of days, I couldn’t resist. The irony: it took...
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