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Time certainly does slow down, doesn't it. I view wildlife encounters something like child hood in that when looking back, you wonder how the hell the good lord has kept you alive!

One year we decided to do a walk in sheep hunt in the Alaskan Range, starting near Healy. The plan was to run the wheelers as far up a local river as possible and walk in from there.

We were getting pretty close to where we were going to have to ditch the wheelers, the river rocks were just getting to big to hop around. As we come around a corner, there stands a grizz in the middle of the stream, which by now is not all that large - he was blocking our way so we stopped the machines and threw a few rocks at him to get him to vacate the area which he does without incident.

But he apparently was a vindictive bastid since this is what my machine looked like when we returned after a week. Grizz = 1, Bob = 0!