"Bear in Camp!"

                                                                            Holly                                                                                    ( Photo by Lynne Lewis)      Of all my seasons at Brooks, this one has proven to be the most difficult to describe.  In part that's because it was structured in a different way from most, in three relatively short parts that ended at the time that the season would normally just be getting under way for me.  Also, it was my last one, and I knew from the start that it would be.  And finally because, while I was still patrolling, the focus had shifted from looking for and dealing with bears to helping to train the next generation of Brooks bear techs.  Rather, two of the three tours were focused on training, while the stint in the middle involved me keeping an eye on camp as the sole bear tech while the rest of the team did some training on the Katmai coast (where the bears are more plentiful in June).      Not that we did