Grizzlies of the Khutzeymateen

Ten years ago, I got off a de Havilland Beaver, the quintessential bush plane of the Canadian north, and stepped into the Khutzeymateen Grizzly Sanctuary for the first time—and it was love at first sight. The long inlet not far from the border with Alaska is flanked by mountains and cliffs, all covered in evergreens draped with flowing moss, and ends in an estuary that’s impossibly green and home to grizzly bears safe from the guns of hunters.

If you’ve never seen my monograph, KHUTZEYMATEEN, I invite you to click here to download a free copy as a thank you for being part of what I do. That monograph represents older work, and I returned to the Khutzeymateen to continue that body of photographs and be reunited with the bears I’ve come to have such affection for.

Coming home with thousands of images, it could be a while before I put anything out that’s more formal, but while I dig out from the trip, the laundry, the gear to clean, and the long edit ahead of me, I thought I’d send a quick note to show you a few of my favourites from this trip.

I’m now in the process of putting together a bear trip for 2025 in the Chilcotin region and working on another visit to the Khutzeymateen, though I’m not sure when that will happen. The former will have room for 11 people; the latter, perhaps only 6. So now’s a good chance to remind you that if you want to be notified of future trips, the best place to do that is to sign up at https://www.myAdventureList.net.

Sorry this one is so short (ha! I bet you didn’t think it was possible), but I’m hoping the pictures will do the talking for me this time.

Thanks for joining me and supporting my work. Don’t forget to download your copy of my older (but still beautiful, if I do say so myself) Khutzeymateen monograph here.