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The problem, Jag, is that keeping a steak dinner and dessert in th same ziplock bag was just too tempting for the poor bear.

He was pissed for awhile.

You guys should have come right away to get me!

But, we had to think about our options. We had more than you did and it took some considering!

Crap. I didnt tink about that. Biotch gotta die fo dat.

I laughed so hard I snorted when I read that "ran out of their tent blowing a whistle", that's too much!!!!

Whole lot of stupid on this thread. Especially the Texans.

Just like a woman.

Gets eaten til she can't take any more, and still complains.

Damn Doc. You nailed it. Especially after spooking the bear off the first time.

This isn't to say bad judgement elsewhere doesn't exist. Pard and I were asleep in a tent (on a trail beside a salmon stream) on the Noatak when I heard some splashing, that stopped short of our tent, paused a bit, then resumed on the upstream side. It had reached our tent, crossed the stream to go around, and recrossed to hit the trail.

I nudged my Lab awake- he sat up, sniffed once, barked "BEAR!" and flopped back down again.

Helluva bear-warning dog.

When you're in grizzly country, experts recommend wearing"bear bells" (yeah, that's a real thing) carrying a whistle, and bear spray. You'll know there's grizzlies in the area because the bear schidt is full of bells & whistles and smells like bear spray.

That's actually not that hard to do, tho tiring on a repeated daily basis. Fuggin kids thrive on that stuff! . A 10 hour hike at 2.5 miles per hour gives you 25 miles. Factor in rest breaks and that drops to 18 or so. BTDT.

A couple years ago my wife, two dogs (one a Dachshund) and another couple did a day-long 15 mile hike (Lost Lake Trail out of Seward). Encumbered only with day packs, it was IIRC, only about 8 hours. The dogs probably did a few more miles on side-trip hunting excursions.

On the trip home:



My toughest hike ever was humping out a pack of camp/sheep meat that exceeded my own weight of 150#. It took me two 14 hour days to cover 18 miles, but that included over the top of 5300 foot mountain from 2500 on either end. (I used to be much taller...... . )

John Muir was reputed to cover 30 miles a day, tho I have to admit, I don't think he ever saw much scenery except his boot laces. Or else fell down a lot.....

Back in my back-pack hunting days, I several times carried out 100 or so pounds of meat/camp, 10.5 miles from one of my favorite hunting spots. It was mostly downhill, but still it was only about a 6 hour hike.

I was young then.....

Spoken like a true authority....

Wow,

Roughly How many grizz are there in Montana? 800-1200? Does the FWS STAZI even know.

10Glocks that is an interesting story. I live in N.Carolina and I never heard of "Bear Lady."

She was 5 foot 11 and when she was young, worked as a prostitute in Las Vegas. In the NC swamps at age 73 she lived in a broken down trailer with no running water and no electricity. Good Lord imagine the heat in August.

Here is an article on her.

https://www.pilotonline.com/news/article_8edc7b00-83cc-5aa7-9998-a5671bc00b89.html

That prostitute thing was just a theory suggested by a niece.

Here's another story.

https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/exploration-survival/what-killed-bear-lady/

The similarities between her and Timothy Treadwell are many. She called the bears "my bears." She got way too familiar with them. She actually let them come into her trailer. She hand fed them. And was warned many times that these bears would kill her if they got hungry enough. There is some disagreement as to the cause of her death, but there is no disagreement that her body was eaten after she died. "He said it’s even possible that the bears carried her into the woods, thinking they were protecting her." Yeah, that's what they did. :rollseyes:

The one thing I do agree with it that there is a substantial amount of bear poaching going on there. I actually carry a handgun when I'm out in that area as much for self protection from the poaching redneck as I do bears. I remember some poachers getting arrested for baiting bears with barrels of fish and peppermint candy. You can use bear hounds in NC, but can't bait.

Damn.

That fox doesn't even flinch.

Never heard that one before.

That's what sharing a tent with Gruff is like.

Well between all the chow in the area, and a couple of funky snatches from bicycle riding all day long out and about in the lovely wilderness.
Where you are most def not top of the pyramid food chain wise in the land of drizzly bears.
And not having a BFP ( Big fuuucking pistol) to at least have a minimal chance of dumping a couple of rounds into Mr. Olafatory aroused Grizzly fuuucking Bear...

You pretty much are asking to be fuuuucking attacked and killed...

People are fuuucking morons and like to feel they have a special bond with wild animals that no one else has, it's just them with this special bond and no one else.
They love to talk about it also...
Then they cant anymore when they are 6 ft under or in a urn.
Cause Boo- Boo and Yogi ate the fuuuck outta them at Jellystone NP...


Homie don't swim in the fuuucking ocean either, you become part of the food chain when you do that stupid schit.

Jaws back in the day and then seeing shark nets with holes in them big enough to drive a VW thru, and hammer heads swimming out side the net at the beach down at Ft Sherman 1 day.
Convinced me swimming in the ocean was a thing of the past for homie.

At least on land you can carry a big fuuuucking gun in apex predator land....
The ocean you options are pretty limited to a 12 ga bangstick or a pitiful azz spear gun.

Plenty of people right now swimming in the ocean on the east coast getting fuuucked up by sharks also....

Some of em probably stupid azz fugging women on rag time leaving a good scent to zero in on.

People are fuuucking stupid.....

I see a lot of these people on tiktok

Tripods set up 25 yards from a grizzly sow and a cub. Standing there narrating and shooting the shît with another aloof homo photographer.

Bicycle as your primary mode of transportation? Nothing to eat but lentils and a potato stuffed into a saddlebag?

I'd say the bear did her a favor.