This is a shorter and higher resolution video about the close encounter with a wild beaver at Maroon Lake in the White River National Forest near Aspen, Colorado. We usually spend 4-6 weeks in Aspen, Colorado, enjoying the great outdoors, hiking, the music and the ambience of this fantastic place. Each summer, I make a number of dawn trips to the famous Maroon Bells. In the summer of 2004, with friends from Sweden, we were hiking along Maroon Lake and we saw this beaver coming towards us. I immediately turned on my Canon Optura XI video and just let it run! The scenes you are about to see are a BEAVER IN THE WILD at Maroon Lake. This animal literally swims into the video whereupon he comes to shore, shakes the lake water off his back, and commences to enjoy a meal of willow branches. All the while I am taping! This is really an amazing and unique natural sighting, I am told. The beaver was only about 30 feet away from the camera, thus, I could use telephoto and capture the WONDERFUL DETAILS of his eyes, his prehensile hands grasping the branches. The sounds are also interesting. If you listen carefully, you can even hear the chewing or gnawing as this beaver digs into his morning breakfast. Enjoy! Malcolm 255.

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