Write almost anything about Alaska bears these days (as I did last week) and you're bound to get an e-mail from someone, somewhere asking for details, verification or a comment on what has become an Internet legend: "The following pictures are of a guy who works for the U.S. Forest Service in Alaska and his trophy bear.
"Alaska Mountaineering." The two words rose from the page of a National Outdoor Leadership School catalog. One phone call later, I was signed up on a mid-May mountaineering course in Wrangell-St. Elias, our country's largest national park.
