The mountains on the edges of Anchorage have already received their "Termination Dust". Fairbanks also already received a nice little snow storm. I completed a Mt. Whitney summit last year on my father's 67th Birthday September 28. When I returned to Anchorage a couple days later I was greeted at the airport by my kids with snowballs and a yard full of snow.
Also note that the Bears are actually quite wasteful and often only eat the fattiest parts of the fish leaving the rest for the birds and other scavengers.
