EISPIRATEN

Things I learned from Wikipedia:

The word raccoon is derived from the Algonquin word ahrah-koon-em—other transcriptions exist—which was the pronunciation used by Chief Powhatan and his daughter Pocahontas, meaning "[the] one who rubs, scrubs and scratches with its hands".[8] Similarly, Spanish colonists adopted the Spanish word mapache from the Nahuatl word mapachitli of the Aztecs, meaning "[the] one who takes everything in its hands".

Interesting critters actually - they are very, very distantly related to bears (maybe), but have their own genus - Procyon. Very smart animals too.

The idea here was that animals would come to this small pool right off the trail to drink, and I would get their faces...did not work as planned. I think this bear is the mama bear (based on her size) of Gary Valle's bear cubs :http://www.photographyontherun.com/Bear ... Trail.aspx



Also happened upon the late papa bear, may he rest in peace...or pieces as the case may be.

very cool. so was this off the south fork trail?

Actually right on the south fork trail, about a mile down from Islip Saddle. The water is flowing much less than it was two weeks ago - might dry up altogether, I think.

damn your pretty good at tracking these critters.........and they're remains. you should excavate that for a musuem or some thing