Yosemite Sam
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looks like a good place to take wifey on pre-divorce vaca........
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She’d probably karate chop it (one blow kill) or use her laser vision on it.
I was hiking in Glacier National Park (Montana) several years ago. Our group split in two as the faster people didn’t want to wait for the slower folks in our group (key to the story because they had the bear spray)...
I was first in the pack of the slower group (I didn’t really want to wait either, but didn’t want to abandon my friends like an A-hole) when all of a sudden, a cinnamon-colored black bear came up onto the trail from the lower brush and was 30-50 feet from me. I froze in my tracks, put my arms up to make my silhouette as big as possible and started backing up slowly. The bear stared at me, and I stared back at it, as we sized each other up. If in fact it was a grizzly, I was F’ed at that point anyways because it could clearly out run me. Our group had also just hiked up past a family of four with two young kids.
By this point, other folks started to stack-up behind me, as the bear crossed the trail to higher ground. Clearly a younger animal, it sat on a flat rock in the sun and pulled at some sapling branches playing. It was like being at the zoo without the protection of a cage/bars. Like true Americans, we all took out our cell phone cameras and started snapping photos.
Eventually, the animal appeared to get bored, hopped off the rock and started flanking us on the high-ground in the brush. We all took that as our cue to skedaddle. On the way back we took the same trail (it was the most direct route) mindful of where we saw the bear. Within that general vicinity, there were two sets of crisscross bear claw marks about 4-5’ up on a tree adjacent to the trail. It was so prominent, I swear I would have noticed it on the way up. I’m not saying this exact bear made those exact marks, but I saw a bear waaaay closer than I ever thought I would, and those claw marks had to be 1/8” deep into the bark of the tree.
Moral of that story: Don’t F- with nature. Maybe carry two cans of bear spray (LOL) Just about the only person I’d stand in between a bear for is my kiddo. Everyone else is pretty much on their own.
I told her I needed help rehearsing for "Naked & Afraid XL". She asked no questions...
I was on vacation recently out West. I hiked in Grand Teton and Yellowstone. I was too cheap to buy bear spray. The only thing that I ran into was a big bull Moose. I checked out a wildlife refuge that had grizzly bears and wolves. More people are killed by lightning strikes than by bears. I'd guess that more people are killed by hitting deer as well.View attachment 379140
Is that really in the woods??
Yep. And the check is in the mail...Is that really in the woods??