The 40th Solstice Gathering – by Malcolm Terence
Click here to read an article featured in the North Coast Journal about the 40th Black Bear Solstice Gathering written by Malcolm Terence.
Another Saga in the Myth of Blackbear – by Don Monkerud
Grayish blue folds of mountains recede into the distance, one atop the next, like waves in the ocean, wisps of light fog still clinging to the early morning peaks. The slopes are covered with evergreen forest and distant slashes of dirt mark roads that wind their way between the bare earth of clearcut logging blocks, along river highways and cut knife-like up jagged mountain ridges.
At a lookout point on a ridge, the mountains make me feel on top of the world; a world that stretches below me and offers a maze of peaks and ridges requiring a map to sort out the jig-saw puzzle of wilderness names like Grasshopper Ridge, Haypress Meadows, Chimney Rock and Bear Valley. Click here to read more.