I didn't take this shot but I really wanted to. I was sitting on a rock pile in northern Wisconsin, waiting for a buck. I hear a crunch right behind me. I knew it was a buck and I had to be ready, so I put my finger on the safety and slowly turned my head. Here's a super fat black bear about 10 feet away. It was only 250# maybe. I wanted it to charge me so bad. It turned it's head, hoping I would be gone when it looked back. I wasn't so when it looked back at me, his nerve broke and he took off back where he came from. He looked like a black bean bag bouncing across a beanfield. Boy, they are beautiful animals, until they run and look ridiculous.
Maybe he was just being goofy for some reason. A bear can flat out cover ground when they want to and unlike a deer they can keep up that pace for a long ways. Can run uphill on mountain rock as fast as going down and look fluid and effortless doing it. Lots of adjectives would come to mind about a running bear but I can't say looking ridiculous was ever one of them. Impressive on a large scale would be more like it.
One is alone in a land so vast, there is only the mountains, the wind, and the eyes of God.
