A primiparous 5-year-old female with her one-week-old kid

A 12-year-old female with her kid in August 2008

Three kids playing together in August 2008

A 5-year-old male in May 2009

A 6-year-old male that was captured and that is about to be released after being given the antidote to reverse the effects of the tranquilizing drug, in June 2012

A yearling female suckling on her 14-year-old mother in June 2012

A yearling in May 2007

A 2-year-old male in May 2007

A yearling male in a trap about to be handle in June 2006

And off he goes... releasing a young male, June 2004

Fitting a visual collar on a 2-year-old female, June 2004

About to give the antidote and release this

8-year-old female, June 2006

Trap site view from the blind, Caw Ridge

The weather is always very calm on top of Caw Ridge... recovering a trap that flew away to end up in the small lake in May 2001!!

June 2002... humm... well even though these traps weigh something like 150 kg, they did record wind up to 130 km/h that day!! One of the new traps ended up destroying an older trap, maybe it was a sign to reorganise the trap site a bit...

A grizzly bear having a rest in a ravine after feeding on a 7 year-old female goat (in the middle above the bear) that it killed during an attack on a top more than half a km above

The rest of a carcass of an 13-year-old male goat eaten from a grizzly bear in late May 2010

September 2005, what about a little BBQ to tease a bit the grizzly

An unexpected too warm day in late May gave Rachel an opportunity to create a new style...(Caw Ridge 2010)

A happy gang after a funny slide in the snow on the north face of a summit

"It's just a small storm, let's wait a bit on top of Big Rigde and see..." Well, after a few hours of in and out, the storm hit for real, and we surrendered to come back to camp, where we stayed in for 3 days.

A large grizzly bear scanning below in the north slopes at Caw Ridge in June 2010

First glance outside after a 3-day storm in May 2004... there was almost no snow left before the storm, then the 3 quads weresurrounded, but anyway too frozen to start!

Early June 2007, Caw Ridge, it's been raining and we're in a foggy white-out... well, nothing better to do than shovel the northern trail that is still filled with snow, so we can drive our quads to town and have a nice shower... well, well, we didn't manage to finish that day because we only had one shovel left (yeap, we broke the others we had earlier that year)... but considering how wet we endded up, we did have a shower, just not the one we were looking for!!Here is a look at what shoveling the northern trail means... May 2002

Just another typical spring snow storm it the area that left more than 1 meter of fresh snow in some areas... time to get the shovels out again!

We do have nice weather some days too... and hours of behavioural observation sitting behind a little scope (Caw Ridge June 2006)

Tired field assistants walking back up the steep hill from Wonderful Escape Terrain after a long day - Caw Ridge May 2007

Catching some good shots after being surprised by the goats on the trail, September 2004

Trying to hide in vain after the goats surprised us coming towards us on the way to the traps... well we would be more successful with some trees to hide behind rather than grass!!August 2008

Collecting goat feces and vegetation close to cliffs, July 2003

Catherine playing to the memory of "Miss Caw Ridge", a 11-year-old female that was found dead that day, August 2003

A pica at Caw Ridge, July 2002

Capturing marmots at Caw Ridge June 2005, here #52 is about to be released

Well, I'll skip the details about the elixir we use to trap the marmots, but let's just say that it is so attractive that this adult female "Green-green" dares to come and drink it right from the bottle!

Marmot warrior!! Attacking our quads from seat and handles, to the wires... hard to keep a quad new at Caw Ridge

Taking pictures of the moss layer in the snow beds, Finnmark July 2011

That is what we call a wall of thunder showers hitting the tundra! We managed to finish the plot at this uppermost site and get our butt down before the thunder hit!Finnmark, July 2011

Norwegian lemming hiding between rocks Ifjordfjellet, Finnmark, September 2011

The rest of a winter lemming nestFinnmark July 2011

Rough-legged buzzard fledglings, Finnmark July 2011

Recording moss cover and counting lemming feces, Finnmark July 2010

... yeap, this is really what we are counting!!!

A Norwegian lemming, screaming at us!Finnmark September 2011

Typical Finnmark habitat

A Norwegian lemming alive...

... and dead! This year was a peak and there was a lot of lemming carcasses partly eaten in the fallFinnmark 2011

A semi-domesticated reindeer flock, Finnmark 2011

Taking measurements on a reindeer, Svalbard April 2009

Releasing a reindeer,with a blue painted butt so we know it has been captured before, Svalbard February 2010

Svalbard landscape in February 2010

Treating a reindeer for parasites before releasing itSvalbard April 2009

Teeth worn down to the gum!!!

Aurora, Svalbard April 2009

Well, although it doesn't look like it, it was a very lucky stop on the edge of a small but wide and deep wind-formed hole!!Svalbard April 2009