Grizzly Sow and Her Gang of Three by Bryan

Sept 20.  The roar was the sound between a cow and a lion (a baww and a roar put together).  It made my hat stand 4" up on my head.  I'd just bent down to light the outside campfire for morning coffee when there was this noise right behind me.  I whirled around so fast my hat was on backwards (mind you it wasn't touching my head anymore).   Right over the fence - not 10' away from me where 4 Grizzly Bears.  They'd been salmon fishing on the shore right in front of our cabin site.  One cub stood up and looked at me.  I slowly retreated to the cabin.  This group was a good sized Sow and her three 2 1/2 year old cubs.  Their backs where as high as our fence.  I think the one that had roared had touched the electric fence wire.
I went into the cabin and told Vikki to come out quickly.... She'd heard the roaring and was getting her outside cloths on.  We watched them for an hour searching the shore along the lake.  We heard two more large roars. We believe they are more vocal when Sows and Cubs are involved.  Note......Except for the loud unexpected noise this was not a dangerous encounter... these bears were fishing and I was not a threat to them.