Return to the Wild
01 February, 2023
News
New opening date: Sept 2022
More than two years after we closed because of Covid, we will be opening again for business in Sept 2022. We still have quite a few spots left. Please contact Graham for details....
23 March, 2022
In the Guardian: How tracking grizzly bears is helping veterans find way back
On a recent crisp sunny morning, a small group of wildlife guides and British and Canadian military veterans, reached a ridge in the mountains of British Columbia and found themselves within 15 metres of a grizzly bear. Click here for more +++...
10 October, 2021
Wild Bear Lodge announces Wounded Veterans Programme
Ground-breaking skill-sharing programme brings together military veterans with physical and mental wounds and professional nature guides in Canada's Inland Temperate Rainforest Wild Bear Lodge, a small niche eco-tourism operation in the remote heart of British Columbia's Inland Temperate Rainforest, is to run a skill-sharing programme that...
08 August, 2021
Interview with Julius for Grizzcast
In this podcast Julius is interviewed by Nicholas Scapillati of the Grizzly Bear Foundation. He talks about the beginnings of Wild Bear Lodge (then Grizzly Bear Ranch), its bears, its vision, the interior temperate rainforest, -which is the only one of its kinds in the...
13 July, 2021
Smoke in the Rockies
I thought I had it all figured out. I carefully checked the forecast winds in Kaslo - a little lakeside community an hour to the south of the lodge - and they were playfully light. More than once voted British Columbia's prettiest village, Kaslo is where...
13 July, 2021
An English New Year’s Eve
When the clock struck midnight on 31st Dec, I was standing on a hillside in south-west England with my old war-time buddy Ant and his wonderful wife Harriet. Around us some of their friends had gathered, sipping whisky out of hip flasks, or swigging champagne...
07 January, 2021
Facial recognition of grizzly bears?
It's a problem that has been vexing bear biologists for decades. How on earth do you tell two grizzly bears apart? They almost all have that characteristic dish-shaped nose, a hump on the back of their neck that packs a mighty digging muscle, and long...
26 November, 2020
Kristin
I have some very sad news to share. In the early hours of yesterday morning my dear, darling wife Kristin, with whom I built up Wild Bear Lodge and have run it for the last fifteen years, died from cancer. I was with her. She had...
16 February, 2020
Sickness & Health
It was a former guest who helped me join the dots. For a couple of years now I have been thinking about the therapeutic value of what we offer at the ranch: high alpine hikes, rainforest walks, encounters with bears and other wild...
11 February, 2020