Bear Camp.

In May 2026, Joe Griffin went north to Saskatchewan for a five-day spring bear hunt, with Jordan Parham filming. Camp sat on the Beaver River, about an hour and a half north of Saskatoon, where farm country turns into boreal forest. Some of the baits there go back to the 1970s, and the bear trails into them are worn deep.

It was Joe's first time hunting over bait for himself, and he hunted from his Latitude saddle. His first night was quiet. A wolf sounded off close by in the evening, and no bears came in.

So he moved. The new bait sat between two big log cuts, and it was busy: sows with cubs, a lone sow, and Patches, a good-sized boar who lost much of his hair to frostbite in the den. Joe saw more than a dozen bears that first evening and passed them all. When a bigger boar came in after midnight, he and Jordan climbed back in at first light.

Patches kept chasing sows and cubs off the bait. Joe finally decided to take him, and with bow in hand he did.

"I have never seen this many bears in my life."Joe Griffin · Bear Camp