Hello, I'm new to your channel. Have watched a bunch so far and am enjoying them. I'm an old retired widower on hospice care and living vicariously through you two. An adorable couple. It's very sweet. Love the adventures on the Alaska hwy. Happy travels
Thank you for the kind words. I am so grateful for every day I get to spend exploring with Jess. I definitely don't take it for granted. Thank you for sharing your story and I'm so glad you get to experience our adventures with us through this channel. Best wishes, Justin
What an amazing location for drone work!!!! Thank you for showing us the beautiful places. That hike!!?! I don't think that is in our future. LOL! Maybe 30 years ago, but falling does not sound fun. Glad the border crossing went so well. She seemed happy to have someone to talk to! 😄 -Michelle
Truth be told, I don't think we will be trying that hike again. The views were pretty spectacular, but falling is always risky. It is so much fun to take photos and videos around Alaska... Pretty much anywhere you point your camera (or drone) you will get awesome shots. Yes, that was definitely the nicest border crossing agent I think we've ever encountered! Definitely made us feel silly for being so worried beforehand 😅 Thank you for watching!! 🙏
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some amazing scenery there. I do find those little wheel movers cool, but probably could have backed my trailer to about the same spot :) That is one great location though. Looking forward to the next episode...continued safe travels.
I think you saw a blonde phased grizzly bear, per your question at 20:02. You are correct to look for snout shape and shoulder hump (and also ear shape, as the black bear's ears are larger and more pointed); color is unreliable to distinguish bear type. The light tipped fur ("grizzled", from which the grizzly gets its name) is not even distinct to the grizzly, as some grizzlies don't have the frosted look, and some black bears do. I've heard the black bear has more color variations than any other North American animal, including a blonde phasing with fur that looks just like this grizzly you've seen. The hump, snout and ears are the tell-tale giveaways. I believe what you noted as a difference in fur texture might be because the grizzly seems to still have his winter coat, where the black bear looks to have already shed most of his. Glad you've now seen your first grizzly in the Canadian wild! And for what it's worth, I would agree that the second bear was a brown black bear.
@@JustinandJess I'm not the expert (though backpacking many years in the Canadian Rockies when I was younger has made me pretty bear aware); the experts are my relatives who legally hunt deer, elk, moose (and occasionally black bear). Though they have done so for decades, mostly to fill their freezers with food for the winter, hunting bear for food is risky. Unlike deer, elk and moose who only eat plants, if a bear has been feeding off fish or the decaying flesh of dead animals, that will negatively affect the taste of their meat. Bears living off dandelions or berries are much more palatable, or so I'm told. I've never eaten bear meat, so I can only take others' word for it. At any rate, a hunter must absolutely correctly identify before shooting an animal that the animal being shot is the species, age, and/or gender he has a legal license/tag to shoot, so I guess some of my relatives' expertise has rubbed off on me, even though the thought of hunting repels me. My apologies if this is too much information...I don't think this was the response you were anticipating when you asked how I learned so much about bears.
Border crossing always make me nervous too. We had our sailboat(s) in Mexico for several years & driving down with parts was always a nightmare (as well as the Federale stops - those were the worst). Cool to see that grizzly bear!
@@JustinandJess no, we just had to prove they were “replacement parts”. The highway stops were often a way to shake us down a little or see what could be pocketed.
@@JustinandJess we had them on the West Coast of Mexico - from Ensenada & up in to The Sea of Cortez to Santa Rosalia & San Carlos and as far south as Zihuatanejo. Four+ cruising seasons total & a lot of other road trips down Baja.
Good looking bears! Great coverage of the trip. Don't know when you will be going up the Dempster Highway to the Beaufort Sea, but north of Inuvik, there are two Inuvialuit communities, Tuktoyaktuk, which is your destination, and Aklavik. The Inuvialuit of Aklavik will be taking a bowhead whale this summer; the meat will be distributed throughout the region.
@@JustinandJess Incidentally, suffix -vik means "place of". Inuk is a person, so Inuvik means "place of man" (mankind). Aklak is the barrel ground grizzly, so Aklavik is the "place of the grizzly". tuktuqaqtug means "he has a caribou", so Tuktuyaktok refers to there being caribou. Tuktu = caribou, qaq = has, possessive, tuq, 3rd person singular.
