Each bear has a story, and in her coverage for adndotcom Juneau's tsu_namee examined the profound lived experiences of each of this year's Fat Bear Week contenders.
The winner of Katmai National Park’s Fat Bear Week is 747 Bear Force One, who weighs in at 1,400 pounds. People around the world voted in the competition for the park’s biggest brown bear. The tournament has gotten so popular that the state’s largest newspaper hired a writer to cover it.
Juneau-based writer Christy NaMee Eriksen is a self-described superfan of the fat bears in Katmai National Park. “You just look at two pictures of bears and you’re determining which one is chonkier, it’s just wonderful. It’s delightful,” she said during a recent interview over Zoom. Eriksen started following Fat Bear Week during the pandemic in 2020. This month, she poured her knowledge into daily reports tracking the tournament’s big brown bears for the Anchorage Daily News. Watching the bears provides relief and comfort — not just in the pandemic, but in everyday life.“As I learned more about the bears I thought there were so many really wonderful stories that could be told about them.
“But Holly is more than a bear who is heavy; she is a bear who knows heavy. She has witnessed the traumatic loss of her child, and she sat with that loss for five years. Anyone who knows grief knows you don’t need a tree to feel stuck somewhere for hours. Anyone who knows grief knows what it’s like to cry someone’s name and never have them return. Why did 435 Holly adopt 503 Cubadult? Everyone asks; no one knows. They were not related.
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