There are four days left until the opening on April 28. As announced in the latest news, the first 77 people who visit on April 28th will receive a bear cookie! Today, the prototype is ready, so I uploaded a photo. It is a cocoa-flavored cookie with a hint of almond paste. The pastry chef said with a smile, "It's a brown bear, so I chose cocoa flavor." Although the number is limited, we hope you can enjoy cookies with brown bears.

Bears who have woken up from the winter and want to go out soon. However, there is a lot of snow this year, and the snow removal work is not progressing, so I can not go outside yet. It's nearly 2 meters long, so it's hard if you climb over the fence and escape. Sunbathing is a treat. If things continue like this, we plan to get them out on April 1. Shhh! The weather is forecast to be rough again over the weekend. If there is a lot of snow, the day when you can go out again may be extended. I hope it doesn't become April Fool's Day. Do you want to go outside? Do you want a snack? Santa is fine even after the winter holidays!

In one month, Bear Mountain will start operations for fiscal 2012. This year, which marks the 7th year, as an opening project, the first 77 people will receive "bear cookies" ☆ Although it is just a feeling, we are waiting for the pastry chef special cookie of Sahoro Resort Hotel. Thank you for your continued support of Sahoro Resort Bear Mountain this season. April 28 (Sat) 9:00 Open!

Today, on the 82nd day of fasting, the feeding began. The bears in question are Moko, Hinata, Santa and Canta. I had been awake for a few days now, so I had to start feeding from these four animals first. Most of the other bears are starting to wake up, but some of them are still sleeping soundly. Initially, the bears start with a small amount of the sweet bait they love, and gradually increase the amount and get used to it. It is a really small amount for hungry bears, but since there was no object in the stomach for 81 days, I will give it little by little without hurrying. Santa jumps on the bait as soon as he enters the room! For the first time in a long time, he seemed to be in good spirits. Canter looked unsatisfied. I was defiantly wearing straw on my face (laughs) [Breeding: Shigematsu]

GW limited plan from April 28th to May 5th has appeared. On May 3rd and 5th, brown bears will try to catch rainbow trout, and at the hotel, there will be many ♪ events such as "Children's Fair" and "Children's Bingo Tournament" Let's enjoy GW with a great plan that includes 1 night 2 meals and admission ticket with Bear Mountain Bus! Click here for details

At last, the bears can see the movement toward spring! The past month has been in a stable winter state, and the keepers have been chased by snow removal every day, but the movement of the bear gradually becomes active, and it may continue forever? I feel that the end is finally approaching even in the winter that seemed to be. After the March keijo, the bear begins to happen strangely every year, but I thought whether it would continue on cold days this year, but it seems that it is starting to happen without exception, and it seems that the first ride of this year is probably "Moko". When I was removing snow on the roof of the beast house today, I was vigorously opening the lid of the ventilation opening. Until now, there were bears that opened the lid, but it's been a long time since I opened it so vigorously, and I realize that I'm awake. The sub paddock in the beast house also removes snow along the electric fence so that the awakened bears can be free-ranged. This is quite hard work. By the way, the park also removes snow all around! Sara Moko mats by the beast house. [Breeding: Shigematsu]

The brown bears usually start to wake up from the winter's bath from around the "Day of The Day of Enlightenment", when the earth warms up and the insect (蟄) which shrinks in the soil opens a hole and begins to move. Hinata and Santa are moving differently than they are in winter. We are doing winter with a large number of people, but the time to enter and the time to wake up vary depending on the individual. Who's up next?

The 2012 leaflet has been completed and delivered! This time, Kouji is on the cover. The contents have also been renewed, so if you see it somewhere, please pick it up and take a look ♪ And please come and meet the brown bears <(_ _)>

Ice is piled up and looks like an object, but this ice is a very important ice. The reason why it is important is that it is ice given by brown bears in winter so as not to cause dehydration. In the first year of winter, I was making a lot of big ice anyway. However, when I tried to give it to the bears, I did not enter from the shelter of the cage, and I was repeatedly doing the harsh work of dividing one by one and giving it. Scold! Winter is also in its sixth year, and it is calculated as the last minute to enter the serving place? It has evolved into ice. It was back information from the breeding staff who worked quietly during the winter.

At the time of the other day's sleep recording, Koji had arranged the bed, so I took it with a video. Even during the winter, you can get up by eating ice or fixing your bed. If you find a brown bear in the mountains in winter... It's scary just to think about it.

Today I recorded the sleep of the brown bear. Brown bears in the winter spend about 100 days without drinking or eating. In order to reduce metabolism, the respiratory rate also decreases the number of times than usual. I wanted you to hear such a brown bear's sleep (breathing), and I recorded it with the cooperation of DJ JURI. The recording time was 1 hour, and it was away from the beast house during that time, so I'm looking forward to what kind of sound is ♪ recorded By the way, what do you think a brown bear sleeps like? I think that I can send it at a later date, so please wait for a while. A lot of ice was in front of the beast house. Well, suddenly here is a quiz. What is this ice used for?

Bear Mt's eye of the typhoon "Moko" is firmly in winter this year, and it seems to be a lie that I did not sleep at all last year. Today, I had you go out of the room for the first time in a long time by replacing all the straws in moko's room, but the movement was slow and seemed to be completely in winter mode like other individuals. Straw is finely chewed and shredded, and it is completely pettanco by weight. The room is 1000000 and the room is 1000000000.>. <) Moko's nails create an atmosphere. After all I wonder if it is young ... If it is a bear in normal winter warmth mode, I do not stand up too much and appeal, but that area is really moko! As long as I entered the room, I began to process the sesse and the new straw to make it easier to sleep. The sound of biting the straw and cutting it echoes in the beast house. It makes you feel the strength of the bear's ang again. The temperature in the beast house is minus 9 degrees Celsius! The temperature outside has also dropped to around minus 20°C, and it is a situation where the natural environment of Hokkaido can be created. However, I feel the vitality of the brown bear sleeping in this situation and a tremendous thing. And it is also a hat off the strength of Sarah Moko's dog who is doing well in front of the ski resort ticket! If humans could not lose, it was a keeper who went to the beast house in super thick clothes today (laughs) [Breeding: Shigematsu]

The animal house, which has cooled down very much due to the cold wave of the past few days, has finally dropped its room temperature to minus 9 degrees Celsius. Of course, the outside temperature is much colder, but the heat emitted by the bears that are crowded in winter is somewhat warmer indoors, but even if it gets cold up to now, it was about minus 6 ° C, but it may be due to the cold of this year that has fallen so far this time. The cold is very severe in the Tokachi region, but it is not such a heavy snowfall area, so snow does not accumulate as much as it does, but Sahoro piles up as it is, so the snow shoveling of the beast house is like a daily routine, but finally the snow that has been piled up on the roof of the beast house and scratched has covered the beast house! From the point of looking at areas with a lot of snow, it may not be a big deal, but a sense of accomplishment that can not be said indescribably? I took a picture involuntarily. I think that you can see a concrete building, but it is covered with a wall of snow that leaves only that. It is a thing that chile piles up, too. By the way, it is a snowy mountain of fluffy with amazing powder snow because the cold is (^^) severe recently [breeding: Shigematsu]

Bear Mountain bears, who have entered winter mode with the start of 2012, are still sleeping quietly today. Hirotake, who has shown resistance such as opening the lid of the ventilation mouth until the end, has grown up completely for the past week and has a (^^) good night's sleep Well, I have talked about the winter weight of the brown bear before, but it is not a state of temporary death or continuing to sleep without getting up until spring, depending on the time of day, I lick the ice, rumbling and messing with the straw. Therefore, the keeper checks every day, and the straw that gets dirty or moist takes the bear out of the acupuncture house and performs the replacement work. Today, we did a straw replacement work for Kota's room. I saw Kota that came to light for the first time in a long time, but I could see that there was no particular serious thinness and that I was having a smooth winter. Kota's bed. It's a bit messy and it's completely pettanco (laughs) This is a lump of ice left for hydration. There are about 50 cm × 30 cm, and what is missing is the mark that kota licked. Some bears have Garigari-kun. Welcome Kota with a beautiful straw. I was a little wary, but after this I entered easily and fiddling with straw so that I could sleep easily.

Happy New Year. It is Moko. We celebrated 2012 with a lot of light from the first sunrise. And today, I went out into the unknown. It is Sahorodake Shrine. It is a guardian dog, koma moko. I was told what, and I was shaken by the gondola. Mt. Sahoro Shrine built next to the gondola summit station building. Why don't you come and visit ☆ It was a surprise moko on the gondola for the first time.

2011 is finally coming to an end. Bear Mt's bears are steadily entering the winter months! Hirotake, who had never shown any signs of sleeping, has calmed down considerably over the past few days, and has stopped opening the vent lid. I think it's safe to say that the other bears are mostly in hibernation for the winter. The photo I'm going to upload today is of me going into the animal enclosure after hearing the bear's breathing first thing in the morning and watching the bear through the small board window in the lattice door. Please avoid entering the animal enclosure as much as possible so as not to disturb the bears' sleep. However, it is not possible to check the condition of the straw or the presence of ice placed to maintain moisture by just checking for breathing, so we check the condition using only flashlights and whispers. First, let's look at the front room. Here I get ready and enter the dark animal house. He looks like he's going exploring somewhere... He watches the bear through a small window. Currently, the temperature inside the animal house is about -5 degrees Celsius. I took this photo with a special flash, but it was actually pitch black so I had to press the shutter (...) Anyway, everyone! Don't give up on the cold and see you next year!! [Breeding: Shigematsu]

Today marks 7 days since I completely fasted. It's been three days since we renovated each room on the 22nd to make it more winter-friendly (we put a board over the lattice door to make it darker and put straw in it for sleeping), but the Bear Mt bears are already starting to move into winter. Meanwhile, there's a bear who doesn't seem to be sleeping... It's Hirotake, a problem child. In the summer, I leave the lid of the ventilation hole on the roof open to improve ventilation, but in the winter, I close the lid of the ventilation hole to darken the room and prevent snow from getting in, but so far, only the Hirotake mushroom opens the lid by itself (><) I've made a diagram to make it easier to understand! ! Even though I have no artistic talent, I took on a reckless challenge (.＿.) But this is what it really looks like! Maybe... It's like hell, but I can open it even if someone is on top of the lid. As expected of a brown bear! ! If it were a human, it would be one punch. This is a really shocking photo! If you look closely, you can see the forelimbs of Hirotake. [Breeding: Shigematsu]

She had her final feeding on the 18th and went on a complete fast from the 19th, and today is the 4th day. Today we worked to create a more comfortable sleeping environment by putting boards on the lattice doors of each room. Clinton is likely to be the first to stay home this winter!! When I go out of the room, I don't want to come out and my movements are slow. For the past few days, he had been sleeping in the corner of the room, and I noticed that he didn't pay much attention to his surroundings, but today, as soon as he entered the room, he shook the straw that he had prepared and quickly laid down on his back and fell asleep. It's a little hard to tell, but it's Kouji entering a room with straw. Everyone came in obediently, probably because there was a wall today. If you leave straw behind, they will start making their own bedding as they like. No one teaches these behaviors; everyone does them instinctively! They have quite a unique personality and are interesting, so I'll be introducing more about them in the future (^^) [Breeding: Shigematsu]

From December 23rd, a nature tour will begin where you can walk around the park on snowshoes. First, we will proceed on the bear watching bus course. What you can see above is the promenade course. How do the bears look up? That's what I thought when I started. We found a tree whose skin was peeling off due to excessive marking (back rubbing)☆ Even though there was 50 cm of snow on the ground, there were claw marks on the head of a male staff member. The real pleasure of nature tours is being able to see things so close. And the hair that fell out during marking (back rubbing) is still there. I wonder what brown bear fur feels like. This is the content of the tour. You won't be able to see the brown bears who are huddled in winter, but if you can feel the brown bears and walk on the fluffy snow, even if you can't ski or snowboard, you can still walk energetically. Snowshoe rental is included, so we look forward to your participation! Bear Mountain Forest Nature Tour Details Click here for last year's schedule

Today I went to see the inside of Bear Mountain for the first time in a while. As expected, the park was covered in deep snow, making it difficult to walk without snowshoes. I mainly walked along the promenade, and there was about 3cm of snow above my knees, so the view from that point of view was completely different from the summer season. (It's different in the first place since it's winter, but...) The fall prevention net installed on the promenade seems to even prevent snow from falling, and there was a thick layer of snow on top of the net, and if we didn't remove it, it would put a heavy burden on the fall prevention net, so today we worked hard to remove the snow. I took the opportunity to upload a photo of the promenade covered in snow, which is hard to see (^^)

It's mid-December, and Bear Mountain is completely covered in deep snow. It feels like there's a lot of snow this year, probably because there wasn't much snow last year. In fact, it is said that there is a relationship between snow and winter confinement, and depending on the depth of the snow, some brown bears dig to find and eat food, while others calmly burrow into a hole to reduce energy consumption and wait for spring, rather than moving around tirelessly to search for food. Every morning, there is a thick layer of snow on the roof of the animal enclosure due to the constant snowfall, but removing this snow is actually very important.If the snow is not removed properly, the body heat of the bears inside the enclosure will melt the snow on the roof, dripping into the rooms where the bears are sleeping, dampening the straw that the bears sleep on during winter confinement, and potentially robbing the bears, whose metabolism has slowed, of their body heat. Therefore, when the snow accumulates every day, the keepers thoroughly remove the snow before working on the animal housing, but this year, the pace of snowfall has been fast, and the snow that was falling from the roof has already piled up and reached the roof of the animal housing (><) Last year, I think it only reached this point around February, so I'm looking forward to seeing how far it will go this year (^.^)! [Breeding: Shigematsu]

Today is the long-awaited feeding day for the Bear Mt bears. After two days of fasting, the hungry bears were banging on the door as if to say, ``Feed me quickly!'' Including today's feeding, there are only two more feedings this year. After finishing the last feeding of the year on the 18th, we are finally heading into winter in earnest. Depending on the individual, their metabolism may have slowed down considerably, and some may already be switching to winter mode. I think you can see various changes in the bears' movements from here, so be sure to check out the blog! This is Hinata waiting in a corridor called a chute outside the room to clean the room (^^) [Raising: Shigematsu]

I have finally entered the final phase of my planned fasting in preparation for winter confinement. By gradually reducing the amount of food fed and adding days of fasting, we have been guiding the bears towards winter confinement, but due to the recent cold weather, the bears at Bear Mt' are also well into winter confinement. It seems that we will be completely stuck in winter around the year-end and New Year holidays. Moko Sara is feeling even better now that the snow has piled up (^^) You can meet her in front of the ticket office at the ski resort! This is Kouji with his big butt facing us. What are you thinking when you put your face on the door leading outside? [Breeding: Shigematsu]

We are halfway through the planned fasting for winter, and the bears are relatively obedient to their rooms after being fed for the first time in two days. Next, after two days of fasting, there will be a feeding day, where we will further reduce the amount of food they eat to get their bodies used to winter confinement. Bears in winter have lower metabolism and slower movement than in summer or autumn. They switch to a so-called energy-saving mode, sustaining themselves with the nutrients they stored in the fall, and quietly survive the winter. At the moment, Inuo and Shingo (both 28 years old, which is quite old for a bear) are starting to move a lot slower, and I'm a little worried that they'll fall asleep at any moment (><) Today, I'm going to take a picture of Kouji, who ate his first food in two days in the blink of an eye, and for some reason is staring at one thing in a daze. 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　[Breeding: Shigematsu]