Bjorn Dihle lives in Juneau, Alaska, where he splits his time between guiding natural history film crews, writing, and raising a family. His most recent book is "A Shape in the Dark: Living and Dying with Brown Bears."
Shortly after graduating high school, my buddy Ed got run over by a truck while riding a bicycle. We’d been planning a mountain goat hunt up the Taku River near where Ed’s family had a cabin. I figured the hunt was off. The accident was the sort that would have killed most people, but Ed walked it...