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Typically, Regal pilots make early season scouting flights. Usually, the grizzlies are up and about by May 10, and the season runs into September. The company provides a pre flight safety briefing in Anchorage. “At Brooks, the brown bears will walk beneath the boardwalk (spanning the river). But we never approach closer than 50 feet.”
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