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2010 Available Tour Dates

August 2010: All dates in August 2010 are booked solid. I still have dates in 2011 and 2012 still available.

September 2010: I am sorry but Sept is now booked solid.

October 2010: The following dates are still available 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 25, 26, 27, 28

November 2010 through March 2011: Email me for availablity. I have a few open dates in each week, in each month. Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years are the most popular times.

The bear tours end on or about August 23 each year. Sorry, no bear tours offered after Augut. I start leading the wolf viewing tours at the end of August and we often see a distant bear while viewing wolves.

  Viewing wild grizzlies in Yellowstone Park requires a short cross country hike averaging 1.5 miles into an area with no trails, no visitors, no traffic, and only the sounds of nature.
 

    Grizzlies are viewed with spotting scopes (I provide three scopes with tripods--$4300. worth!) from pre- established viewing areas in the backcountry that I developed in the late 1980's. While spotting and viewing bears the group will learn through open discussion everything they ever wanted to know about bears, wolves, Yellowstone Park or anything else they are interested in.

    Elk, bison, bald eagles, harrier hawks, coyotes, and once in awhile wolves are also viewed along with grizzlies during this tour.
 Note: This is a wild backcountry tour, not a road tour like most other guides offer.

    The bear viewing tours are my most popular spring and summer tour. Very small sized groups of 1-5 are taken out each day to designated viewing areas. Once we arrive at the viewing location we are stationary until it is time to hike back out to the road at dusk.

    Minimum age limit for the bear tour: 12 The age limit is only for the bear tour. On all other tours that I offer, there is NO age limit, and younger kids are encouraged and welcome to join in.

    Afternoon tours are offered for bears, except in May when I offer only early AM tours.

    Digital video camera's work best for photographing the bears from a distance, unless you can afford a Nikon 800mm lens. If full framed, full faced photographs of grizzly bears is your main goal, then I would have to recommend your local zoo. A few guests with Canon XL-2 digital video camera's have been able to "reach out there" and capture these shots. Otherwise, the bear tour is more of "an experience, and unique adventure". The second and third week of May are the only two weeks of the year when you have the chance of capturing full face, full frame shots of bears close up. Email me for details.

    Viewing and safety guidelines originally established at McNeil River Falls in Alaska are followed for your safety and to minimize the impact on the grizzly bears.

    Get away from the road and the crowds and see grizzly bears in their natural environment!

Note:

  I reserve the right to cancel or change this tour at the last minute if the area becomes too dangerous to visit, or if the tours impact the grizzlies and other wildlife in a negative way.
 
 

 
  Fee Schedule And Reservations

    This is a custom private charter guide service, with a one - on - one personalized vacation tour program designed to make this a vacation of a lifetime!

Summer Backcountry Rate:  $500. flat rate, total price for 1-5 guests. (A 6th person can be added on with advance notice) Private charter tour, approx, 6 hours depending on month.

Afternoon tours only. Entrance fee, and food are not included in rate.

Spring Bear/Wolf Rate:  $550. flat rate, total price for 1-5 guests. Private charter tour, approx, 6 hours depending on month.

Morning tours only. Entrance fee, and food are not included in rate.

The spring tour (May) requires more driving. We utilize a much larger area with several different locations to optimize and increase the number of bears and increase the chances of seeing wolves too. The summer tour (as soon as snow melts--June, July, August) is a backcountry tour so not as much driving and a lot more hiking= less fuel expenses.

Meeting Location and Lodging choices: Canyon Visitor Center, or Canyon Lodge is where I meet most guests. Canyon Lodge or Canyon Campground are the two closest options for lodging. West Yellowstone Montana is about 1 hour away and Mammoth is about a 45 minute drive. Lake Hotel is about a 30 minute drive. Old Faithful is about 45 minutes away.

Booking This Tour:
Please send me an email with your preferred date, as well as any second choices for tour date. Also include the number of guests in your party, ages, any handicaps or other health concerns, where you are lodging, ages, other tours you are interested in and any other information which you feel I might need in making your visit to Yellowstone Park a memorable one.

A 30% deposit is required at time of reservation. To book this or any other tour just drop me an email and once a date is set and the tours you are interested in are confirmed I will send you an email regarding deposits, cancellation, etc........

Transportation, guide, and spotting scopes are provided.

For more information, or to reserve your day-------Email and Contact information

Who Is The Bearman?--Biography/Vitae

Kevin Sanders

Yellowstone Outdoor Adventures!
64995 Gallatin Road
Gallatin Gateway,  MT.  59730
Email: kevin@yellowstone-bearman.com

 
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