The awakening of Banff National Park's most iconic grizzly heralds the return of bears to the Alberta landscape.

Parks Canada calls him Bear 122, but he's better known to most in Alberta — and across Canada — as The Boss.

Believed to be in his mid-to-late twenties, the Bow Valley's dominant grizzly is typically among the first bears observed in Banff National Park every spring.

"He's still super tired, walks around really slow, and he's probably sleeping about 20 hours a day right now, so he's not doing a whole lot," said Bloodoff.

The gargantuan grizzly has been estimated to weigh somewhere between 650 and 700 pounds. He's the largest bear in the Bow Valley, followed by his rival Bear 136, or Split Lip.