This is the first Grizzly Bear I encountered in the wild. It was a good-sized bear that was meandering through some meadows in Grand Teton National Park. If you look behind its front legs, you can see a lighter colour patch of fur associated with Grizzlies. You can also see a bit of the humped back Grizzlies have, one great way to tell apart Grizzlies and Black Bears from a distance.

I was on the wrong side of this bear to get any perfect pictures as I had to photograph it facing into the sun, but still managed to get some decent shots. Spotting this Grizzly is still one of the highlights from all of my travels to Montana and Wyoming.

The Grizzly Bear is sometimes called the North American Brown Bear and is one of many subspecies of Brown Bears around the world. At the top of my list for future bear adventures is to head to Alaska to see the largest of all brown bear subspecies – the Kodiak.