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Your hosts and guides at Grizzly Bear Ranch
Julius is a former journalist who worked for the Daily
Telegraph for many years as a foreign correspondent.At different times he was assigned to cover Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Chechnya and elsewhere. In 2002 Julius was posted to Moscow as the newspaper's bureau chief to cover Russia under Vladimir Putin.  Two
years later he met Kristin while on assignment in her native Estonia.
Kristin is a former reporter with the Reuters News Agency.They lived together in Moscow for several months. Craving open spaces and clean air, they then decided to move to Canada. After a chance visit while driving across British Columbia to Vancouver in 2005, they fell in love with Grizzly Bear Ranch and begged and borrowed from relatives and banks to raise the money to buy it. Since arriving at the ranch Kristin has published a biography of the Estonian philosopher Nikolai Maim, part of the History of Estonian Thought series. More recently, she self-published the Grizzly Bear Ranch Cookbook. To buy or download a copy of the cookbook please go to amazon.com or lulu.com and enter "Grizzly Bear Ranch cookbook". A second edition came out recently. 
Both Julius and Kristin have prepared themselves rigorously for
their current roles as your hosts and guides. Julius and Kristin are both trained in advanced Wilderness First Aid
(trained and certified by Wilderness Medical Consultants). Both have completed Canadian firearms safety
courses.Julius has also been trained in surviving hostile environments, has a licence to operate boats, a commercial pilot's licence, a raft-guiding licence and has trained and certified as a bear guide. Between the two of them, Julius and Kristin speak fluent English, Russian, Hungarian and Estonian as well as basic German and French. Gillian - naturalist, bee-keeper, riding teacher, bear expert. Gillian,
36, has been with us from the very beginning and we value her highly. She lives
locally
and is multi-talented. When not tending to her bees, milking her goats, growing vegetables or giving horse-riding lessons, she devotes her energies to bears and bear conservation. During the spring, summer and autumn Gillian shares her wealth of knowledge with our guests. She is a first-rate naturalist. Gillian has years of experience viewing and operating around black bears and grizzly bears and runs many of the local bear aware programmes that help people co-exist with bears. Certification: First aid, bear guide (certified by the Commercial BearViewing Association of British Columbia), boat operator. Competencies: Hiking guide, boat operator, bear-viewing guide. Interests: Bear conservation, horse-riding. Forest - homesteader, herbalist, climber, kayaker, man of the bush.
Several years ago he moved with his wife, Jenn, and four small children onto 40 acres of wilderness land a few miles south of the ranch, surrounded only by wolves and trees. Since then Forest and Jenn have learned to live off-grid and off the land, keeping cows, sheep and pigs for dairy and meat, and growing their own vegetables. Like their father, Forest's children are as at home in the bush, picking mushrooms, gathering berries and chopping up wood, as they are in the small village where they all go to school. As well as being a succesful homesteader, Forest is a trained canoe and kayak guide and hiking guide. His particular talent is rough country. He is also an expert on mushrooms.Certification: Bear guide (certification by the
Commercial Bear Viewing Association of British Columbia), boat operator, First Aid. Competencies: Hiking guide, boat operator, bear-viewing guide, rafting guide. Interests: wilderness survival, wildlife.To see more information on the cabins, click here or to find out more about our holidays click on one of the boxes below.
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