A Close Call with a Pair of Grizzly Bears in Banff National Park      I had an interesting grizzly bear encounter on Thursday, June 27, 2018. My wife, Kazue, and I were backcountry camping at Norman Lake near Sunset Pass in Banff National Park.  Norman Lake is a little South of the Columbia Icefields and a few KMs East of the Icefields Parkway.  It was a nice day in late June in 2018.  Suddenly, as we were finishing up dinner not one, but two grizzly bears appeared in the mountain meadow in front of us about 150m away and began […]