I knew that this well-loved grizzly sow had shown up back in Grand Teton National Park with three tiny cubs in mid-May of 2022. I started seeing such adorable photos of her with her cubs and I couldn’t wait to get to the park in June and hopefully have a chance to photograph her.
I was incredibly thrilled when I drove down from Yellowstone and into the Tetons and almost immediately found a grizzly. Most photographers tend to recognize the different grizzlies in the park, yet on the first night I saw her, we were all trying to figure out who this beautiful sow was. The truth is, many of us recognized her already but it just didn't seem possible. She had been seen the day before with cubs and...