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Fat Bear Week is here: Meet Backpack, Bucky and other chunky contenders

Sixteen bears are facing off in Fat Bear Week​ 2026, the highly anticipated tournament among the chunkiest bears at the Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska.

Bear 910 vs. Backpack: It's the final showdown for Alaska's Fat Bear Week

Fat Bear Week celebrates the resilience of the 2,200 brown bears that live in the Katmai National Park and Preserve.

Fat Bear Week 2026 begins. What to know, how to vote

Fat Bear Week is an elimination-style tournament where the public votes on which bears are doing the best job packing on the pounds ahead of hibernation season.

Fat Bear Week 2026 Begins September 22: How to Vote for Katmai’s Heavyweights

Fat Bear Week has arrived. Here's everything to know about the 2026 contest

Brown bears on the Alaska Peninsula are getting ready for hibernation, but not before they compete in a popular online contest. Fat Bear Week has arrived, pinning 16 contenders...

Fat Bear Week is back. Meet the heavyweights vying for the title

The annual contest begins on Sept. 22, the first day of fall, with voting for the carb-loading contenders open to the public until Sept. 29.

Fat Bear Week returns, pitting Alaska’s biggest brown bears against each other

Fat Bear Week, the annual online contest everyone loves, has returned to Katmai National Park in Alaska.

Battle for heavyweight crown begins as Alaska's Fat Bear Week opens

After a summer spent packing away sockeye salmon, Alaska's heftiest brown bears are ready to throw their weight around.

Fat Bear Week opens for Alaska’s heavyweight crown. Can Chunk, the 1,200-pound champ, win again?

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — After a summer spent packing away sockeye salmon, Alaska’s heftiest brown bears are ready to throw their weight around. Online voting began Tuesday for Fat...

Fat Bear Week crowns its heavyweight champion: 89 Backpack

Backpack outweighed 16 beefed up bears from five bear families, who call Alaska’s Katmai National Park home, to secure the ultimate prize.

Backpack is Fat Bear Week's 2026 winner – video

Bear 89, an adult brown bear nicknamed Backpack, is crowned the champion of 2026's Fat Bear Week. The tournament is held annually by Alaska's Katmai national park to celebrate the...

It's Fat Bear Week. Cast your vote now

A former ranger's quirky idea about Alaskan bears turned into a wildly popular online voting event that draws people worldwide. Continue reading…

Gentle giant Backpack declared winner of Alaska's Fat Bear Week

After a week of fierce competition, Backpack emerged victorious as Fat Bear Week champion, the heftiest bear of Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve. The nonprofit running...

The final showdown of Alaska's Fat Bear Week comes down to heavyweights Bear 910 and Backpack

After a week of fierce competition, Bear 910 and Backpack have emerged as the final contenders to be named the heftiest bear of Alaska's Katmai National Park and Preserve.

Fat Bear Week 2026 underway

Chunk is defending his crown, healthy again after a broken jaw. It's estimated he weighed 1,200 pounds before last winter. The post Fat Bear Week 2026 underway appeared first on KY...

Voting for Fat Bear Week begins Tuesday

Your annual chance to root for your favorite fat bears of Katmai National Park in Alaska begins on Tuesday.

Gentle giant Backpack claims Fat Bear Week title in close finale at Alaska's Katmai National Park

"Heavy is the bear that wears the crown. Like really heavy." | After a week of fierce competition, Backpack emerged victorious as Fat Bear Week champion, the heftiest bear of Alask...

Fat Bear Week opens for Alaska’s heavyweight crown. Can Chunk, the 1,200-pound champ, win again?

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — After a summer spent packing away sockeye salmon, Alaska’s heftiest brown bears are ready to throw their weight around.

Gentle giant Backpack declared winner of Alaska's Fat Bear Week

After a week of fierce competition, Backpack emerged victorious as Fat Bear Week champion, the heftiest bear of Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve.

Gentle giant Backpack claims Fat Bear Week title in close finale at Alaska's Katmai National Park

"Heavy is the bear that wears the crown. Like really heavy." | After a week of fierce competition, Backpack emerged victorious as Fat Bear Week champion, the heftiest bear of Alask...

Gentle giant Backpack wins Alaska’s Fat Bear Week

The contest celebrates the resilience of the 2,200 brown bears that live in the preserve on the Alaska Peninsula.

Alaska's salmon-feasting bears face off in biggest Fat Bear Week ever

This year's single-elimination tournament will see 16 competitors face off, compared to 12 in past years. Officials report more cubs in Katmai National Park than they've seen in re...

‘Gloriously chunky’ brown bears compete in annual Fat Bear Week eat-off

Fat Bear Week has become an online sensation as viewers flock to watch and rate brown bears feasting on sockeye salmon in Alaska’s Brooks River as they prepare for their long winte...