Five years ago today, we were able to visit Brooks Falls. We were very early in the season, but had optimized our timing around getting to Aniakchak Crater, knowing that we’d return to Brooks Falls in the future. But fewer bears means fewer tourists—so we often had the viewing platform to ourselves!

@robertbreen I was going to post a whole bunch, along with the humorous (now, at least, definitely not in the moment) story about being run off the trail by two fighting grizzlies