My Cart  A Bear's Journey: Traveling 50 Miles Back Home  by
Patagonia with Doug and Andrea Peacock Heart of Winter 2008  The
map below depicts the journey of a young grizzly bear from the
northwest corner of Yellowstone National Park (on the border of
Montana and Wyoming) to the Centennial Mountains (straddling the
Idaho/Montana state line) 50 miles southwest. The journey to the
land where he was raised as a cub is a hazardous trip across
major highways, through open river bottoms and past two small
towns. Fifty miles was once a short excursion for a grizzly;
bears have been known to travel as many as 500 miles. But
grizzlies rarely make these big moves anymore. Female grizzlies
don’t tend to make them at all; the subadult males in the U.S.
who try are generally shot and killed, or trapped and relocated.
Please read "The Bear Who Crossed the Freeway" for a more
detailed account of the bear's journey.  The bear begins in
Yellowstone National Park. He threads his way across the
Gallatin Valley, negotiating str