Chilcotin Grizzly Bear Photography Tour - British Columbia, Canada
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Join John for a Grizzly Bear Photo Tour in the Chilcotin Mountains of British Columbia Trip #1: September 23 - September 30, 2012 --
The 7-day Hardcore Bear Photographer Tour Trip #2: September 30 - October 5, 2012 -- 5-day Regular Bear Tour Contact John to reserve a spot on the 2012 trips now!  Sockeye Salmon, A Large Grizzly, and a Bald Eagle from the Chilcotin Mountains
View a YouTube video of the tour by 2010 participant Bill Cubitt A unique opportunity to photograph one of British Columbia's largest sockeye salmon runs in the remote fly-in Chilcotin wilderness. This is a new offering for wildlife photographers to a brand new destination that offers mountain grizzly bears (NOT coastal bears!) and black bears, as well as bald eagles, and a host of other wildlife, feeding on the brilliant red sockeye salmon. I visited this isolated region in 2008 and 2009 and was struck by the incredible potential it had for wildlife photography given its remote, difficult-to-get-to location in a stunning mountain setting full of bears; some wild, some accommodating. In just two days in 2008, I saw 16 grizzlies, and in just two hours in 2009 I saw another 5 grizzly bears. In 2010 I led my first two tours to this incredible location and we were not disappointed. Check out our grizzly bear photo galleries from the trips to see for yourself just how good the photo opportunities can be (and watch my blog for upcoming grizzly bear photos from the three successful trips I led there in 2011!). This is, without a doubt, one of the premier grizzly bear photography locations in Canada. Participants will be staying at a backcountry lodge in the middle of the Chilcotin Mountains, accessible via a private airstrip (participants will fly in on a one-hour charter plane flight from Vancouver, British Columbia over the spectacular Coast Mountain Range). This lodge has the only guide operator's license in the area and has several different boats that we will be using on the lake and river to access areas that the grizzlies frequent. We will be floating the river and lakeshore to find the best spots and the best bears. Expect the majority of the photography to be done from boats and to be of varying degrees of difficulty, as we will be on a moving river. This is not going to be your typical 'set up and shoot' type of tour, rather, it is a unique and exciting photo tour that will challenge every skill you have as a wildlife photographer. You can expect to be shooting hand-held, and with a monopod, beanbag, or tripod off of a boat, as well as potentially with a tripod from beside the boat or from the river's edge. Expect to be shooting in a variety of weather conditions; while normal temperatures are in the low to mid-teens (approx 50-60 F) at that time of year, there is the potential for heavy winds, rain, or even snow. Morning temperatures can often be at or below freezing. Trip #1 is our Hardcore Bear Photographer Tour, a full six and a half days photographing grizzlies, eagles, and everything else we can find. This is the tour that is also the most likely to be in the middle of full fall colours in this spectacular pristine mountain wilderness. However, Trip #2 will also have some fall colours and is our normal five day tour, with four and a half days of photography (weather permitting). I'm excited to be the first professional wildlife photographer to lead tours here and I'm looking forward to providing you with some amazing opportunities to photograph mountain grizzlies, black bears, salmon, bald eagles, and more. All Canadian Wildlife Photography Tours are non-smoking tours. Contact John now to reserve a spot on one of the 2012 Grizzly Bear Tours
Stay Tuned for More Information on John's 2013 Grizzly Bear Photography Trips to British Columbia.
Grizzly Bear Photo Tour in the Chilcotin Mountains (tentative dates late September - early October, 2013) Contact John if you are interested in more details as they become available for his 2013 grizzly bear photography tours |