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The long wait for the bears
Every autumn a small bay town fills with visitors waiting for the water to freeze and the bears to walk out onto it.
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The ice road that appears every winter
Each January a highway forms on a frozen river. By April it is gone again, and the towns along it plan their whole year around those few months.
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