It’s the most fattastic time of the year: Fat Bear Week! Welcome to Day 1. Let’s get the ball rolling!
Na Mee
Na Mee is a PEN America fellow and three-time Rasmuson Foundation awardee who lives in Juneau. She is writing about Fat Bear Week 2025 for KTOO and previously wrote under the name Christy NaMee Eriksen.
Place your Fat Bear Week bets starting Tuesday
Similar to March Madness, Fat Bear Week is a bracket-style, single elimination tournament. New to the scene? Juneau writer Na Mee is here to break it down for you.
Crowning the champion of chonk: Historic heavyweight matches up with rotund rookie in Fat Bear finals
By 5 p.m. today we will have a 2022 Fat Bear Champion — but there can only be one.
Net-fish & Chill: 901 is taking the Fat Bear Week bracket by storm
435 Holly and 747 Bear Force One were fat neck and neck all day long.
The Buddha of Brooks River: Can any other bulky bruin topple King Otis in Fat Bear Week 2022?
Otis holds more Fat Bear Week titles (2014, 2016, 2017, 2021) than any other bear at Katmai and it’s not because of his size or strength or killer considerable dad bod.
In today’s Fat Bear Week matchups, the story of a mother’s loss and surprising embrace of an abandoned cub
Two new heavyweights enter the bracket today, and they’re two of the biggest living legends of Brooks River.