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Back From Glacier & The Scariest Bear I Never Saw

eyedclaareyedclaar Posts: 6,980
edited August 2010 in All Encompassing Trip
So, have you ever been awoken in the middle of a pitch-black moonless night in the backcountry of Glacier National Park with a grizzly bear making agitated forceful exhalations right outside your mesh-wall tent? No? Well, then you probably sleep better than I now do. Holy shit!!!

At least I have another story to write.
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  • CROJAM95CROJAM95 Posts: 9,801
    No, but I cut Kirstie alley in line at the country buffet.... And I'm here to tell the tale
  • chadwickchadwick Posts: 21,157
    well done, Sir.
    i know you werent scared.
    if the bear did attack i know you'd have hit him in the face.
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

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    I am tired; my heart is
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    no more forever."
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  • Black DiamondBlack Diamond Posts: 25,107
    chadwick wrote:
    well done, Sir.
    i know you werent scared.
    if the bear did attack i know you'd have hit him in the face.
    With his severed hand...
    GoiMTvP.gif
  • chadwickchadwick Posts: 21,157
    Black Diamond wrote:
    chadwick wrote:
    well done, Sir.
    i know you werent scared.
    if the bear did attack i know you'd have hit him in the face.
    With his severed hand...
    now stop it.
    just stop it.
    eyed is our super bear glacier mountain camping hero.
    no severed hand.
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • eyedclaareyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    chadwick wrote:
    well done, Sir.
    i know you werent scared.
    if the bear did attack i know you'd have hit him in the face.


    Yeah, my heart pounding up in my throat was surely not a symptom of terror; it was just me getting ready to pounce on the big beast.
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  • chadwickchadwick Posts: 21,157
    eyedclaar wrote:
    chadwick wrote:
    well done, Sir.
    i know you werent scared.
    if the bear did attack i know you'd have hit him in the face.


    Yeah, my heart pounding up in my throat was surely not a symptom of terror; it was just me getting ready to pounce on the big beast.
    i understand that heartbeat.
    happens to me everytime a butterfly comes near me.

    bears and butterflies... bad news when agitated
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • Black DiamondBlack Diamond Posts: 25,107
    chadwick wrote:
    Black Diamond wrote:
    chadwick wrote:
    well done, Sir.
    i know you werent scared.
    if the bear did attack i know you'd have hit him in the face.
    With his severed hand...
    now stop it.
    just stop it.
    eyed is our super bear glacier mountain camping hero.
    no severed hand.
    Strike that... With a Severed Bear Paw...
    GoiMTvP.gif
  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    eyedclaar wrote:
    So, have you ever been awoken in the middle of a pitch-black moonless night in the backcountry of Glacier National Park with a grizzly bear making agitated forceful exhalations right outside your mesh-wall tent? No? Well, then you probably sleep better than I now do. Holy shit!!!

    At least I have another story to write.


    i have!!

    'cept it wasn't a grizzly, it was a kitten and i wasn't in a tent, i was on a sofa and it wasn't making agitated exhalations, it was sleeping

    but it scared the living shit out of me!!
  • 8181 Posts: 58,276
    i don't care what anybody says, if that bear would have started anything, i would have shot him in the face.
    81 is now off the air

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  • neilybabes86neilybabes86 Posts: 16,057
    81 wrote:
    i don't care what anybody says, if that bear would have started anything, i would have shot him in the face.

    2 bullets right in the head ..case closed
    i post on the board of a band that doesn't exsist anymore .......i need my head examined.......
  • chadwickchadwick Posts: 21,157
    shooting the bear is cheating and candy ass bullshit.
    if you can't fight off a grizzly with a spear you are a little girl.
    wrestling bear is a great activity.
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • eyedclaareyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    neilybabes86 wrote:
    81 wrote:
    i don't care what anybody says, if that bear would have started anything, i would have shot him in the face.

    2 bullets right in the head ..case closed

    In the same situation, you two would have to quit all the hysterical weeping before you could shoot anything. Grizzly country is no place for pansies...

    Edit: Chad beat me to it. But he's right.
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  • chadwickchadwick Posts: 21,157
    eyedclaar wrote:
    neilybabes86 wrote:
    81 wrote:
    i don't care what anybody says, if that bear would have started anything, i would have shot him in the face.

    2 bullets right in the head ..case closed

    In the same situation, you two would have to quit all the hysterical weeping before you could shoot anything. Grizzly country is no place for pansies...

    Edit: Chad beat me to it. But he's right.
    i have always been in love with eyed.
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • eyedclaareyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    chadwick wrote:
    i have always been in love with eyed.

    Not that there's anything wrong with that.

    In the parks you are absolutely supposed to report any encounters with lions, wolves, and bears, especially grizzlies in backcountry sites. Did I? Hell fucking no. It's the bear's forest and he doesn't need harrassed for being somewhere that he has every right to be. If I don't like it, I don't have to be there.
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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    eyedclaar wrote:
    In the parks you are absolutely supposed to report any encounters with lions, wolves, and bears, especially grizzlies in backcountry sites. Did I? Hell fucking no. It's the bear's forest and he doesn't need harrassed for being somewhere that he has every right to be. If I don't like it, I don't have to be there.

    :clap::clap:
  • FenwayFaithfulFenwayFaithful Posts: 8,626
    eyed was scared of a bear? I don't believe that for one minute. It makes for a better story if he says he was scared...
    "FF, I've heard the droning about the Sawx being the baby dolls. Yeah, I get it, you guys invented baseball and suffered forever. I get it." -JearlPam0925
  • eyedclaareyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    FenwayFaithful wrote:
    eyed was scared of a bear? I don't believe that for one minute. It makes for a better story if he says he was scared...


    I am a natural born story teller. ;)

    What's funny though is that the bear was on his second pass by the tent (maybe 30 minutes after the first time) and getting even closer when I finally had to talk to it and convince it to move along. In the time between the two encounters, I was laying wide fucking awake with one hand on the bear spray listening intently for any kind of sound. My wife, on the other hand, went from terrifed to right back to sleep before it came back. :lol:

    OH SHIT WE'RE ABOUT TO GET EATEN BY A GRIZZLY!!!! (30 seconds later - Snoooooooooze).
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  • DangDangDangDang Posts: 1,551
    eyedclaar wrote:
    What's funny though is that the bear was on his second pass by the tent (maybe 30 minutes after the first time) and getting even closer when I finally had to talk to it and convince it to move along. In the time between the two encounters, I was laying wide fucking awake with one hand on the bear spray listening intently for any kind of sound. My wife, on the other hand, went from terrifed to right back to sleep before it came back. :lol:

    OH SHIT WE'RE ABOUT TO GET EATEN BY A GRIZZLY!!!! (30 seconds later - Snoooooooooze).

    Alright, this I gotta know:
    I finally had to talk to it and convince it to move along

    1) Please tell us, verbatim, what you said to the bear, and

    2) Did he say anything back

    Also
    awake with one hand on the bear spray

    3) What the #(*$&@ is "bear spray"?

    and finally
    My wife, on the other hand, went from terrifed to right back to sleep before it came back. :lol:

    OH SHIT WE'RE ABOUT TO GET EATEN BY A GRIZZLY!!!! (30 seconds later - Snoooooooooze

    4) Did you marry the right woman or what?!
  • ClaireackClaireack Posts: 13,561
    She might not have fallen back to sleep, she may have passed out in terror.

    That would have been me, unconscious in a pool of bodily fluids.
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  • chadwickchadwick Posts: 21,157
    eyedclaar wrote:
    chadwick wrote:
    i have always been in love with eyed.

    Not that there's anything wrong with that.

    In the parks you are absolutely supposed to report any encounters with lions, wolves, and bears, especially grizzlies in backcountry sites. Did I? Hell fucking no. It's the bear's forest and he doesn't need harrassed for being somewhere that he has every right to be. If I don't like it, I don't have to be there.
    reporting siting is for shit and cum.
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • chadwickchadwick Posts: 21,157
    eyedclaar wrote:
    FenwayFaithful wrote:
    eyed was scared of a bear? I don't believe that for one minute. It makes for a better story if he says he was scared...


    I am a natural born story teller. ;)

    What's funny though is that the bear was on his second pass by the tent (maybe 30 minutes after the first time) and getting even closer when I finally had to talk to it and convince it to move along. In the time between the two encounters, I was laying wide fucking awake with one hand on the bear spray listening intently for any kind of sound. My wife, on the other hand, went from terrifed to right back to sleep before it came back. :lol:

    OH SHIT WE'RE ABOUT TO GET EATEN BY A GRIZZLY!!!! (30 seconds later - Snoooooooooze).
    and you my fine Sir are the best.
    this story makes me erect.
    i love savage men.

    wait... mirror
    :lolno: :evil:
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • unlost dogsunlost dogs Posts: 12,553
    I'm scared just reading this. Yeah, maybe instead of my tent I'll sleep out of the back of the Element in upstate New York in a couple of weeks...

    Can bears steal cars?
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  • eyedclaareyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    DangDang wrote:
    eyedclaar wrote:
    What's funny though is that the bear was on his second pass by the tent (maybe 30 minutes after the first time) and getting even closer when I finally had to talk to it and convince it to move along. In the time between the two encounters, I was laying wide fucking awake with one hand on the bear spray listening intently for any kind of sound. My wife, on the other hand, went from terrifed to right back to sleep before it came back. :lol:

    OH SHIT WE'RE ABOUT TO GET EATEN BY A GRIZZLY!!!! (30 seconds later - Snoooooooooze).

    Alright, this I gotta know:
    I finally had to talk to it and convince it to move along

    1) Please tell us, verbatim, what you said to the bear, and

    2) Did he say anything back

    Also
    awake with one hand on the bear spray

    3) What the #(*$&@ is "bear spray"?

    and finally
    My wife, on the other hand, went from terrifed to right back to sleep before it came back. :lol:

    OH SHIT WE'RE ABOUT TO GET EATEN BY A GRIZZLY!!!! (30 seconds later - Snoooooooooze

    4) Did you marry the right woman or what?!

    Dangdang,

    Before I get started on fielding your questions, I must first comment on your remarkable quoting skills. Very impressive. Now, on to the matter at hand.
    1 & 2:
    Bear: WHOOOF!
    Eyed: (in as manly a voice as possible) Alright bear, that is close enough! We are not your dinner tonight. Time to move along.
    Eyed’s wife: (in timid, church-mouse voice) Hey bear.
    *Eyed looking at wife in the dark like “Is that all you got?”
    Bear: WHOOOF! (then nothing, I never even heard a single footstep)
    3:
    Bear spray is a like mace… except for bears. Statistically a far better deterrent than guns.
    4:
    Yes!
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  • eyedclaareyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    edited August 2010
    unlost dogs wrote:
    I'm scared just reading this. Yeah, maybe instead of my tent I'll sleep out of the back of the Element in upstate New York in a couple of weeks...

    Can bears steal cars?

    Can bears steal cars? What kind of question is that? Of course, bears steal cars and car accessories...

    Bear-hubcap-460_793498c.jpg
    Post edited by eyedclaar on
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  • chadwickchadwick Posts: 21,157
    a man only needs 2 or 3 hrs of light rest sleep throughout the night to be good.
    eyed can have finger on bear spray can and sleep.
    good to go.
    tent = steel shelter like a castle.
    eyed woman is safe.

    a grizzly once told me eyed has a large
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • chadwickchadwick Posts: 21,157
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBnGe9HDGBI
    let's watch together
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • DangDangDangDang Posts: 1,551
    eyedclaar wrote:
    unlost dogs wrote:
    I'm scared just reading this. Yeah, maybe instead of my tent I'll sleep out of the back of the Element in upstate New York in a couple of weeks...

    Can bears steal cars?

    Can bears steal cars? What kind of question is that? Of course, bears steal cars and car accessories...

    Bear-hubcap-460_793498c.jpg

    I think he ate the car. And he's using that as a toothpick, oh I can't look.
  • DangDangDangDang Posts: 1,551
    chadwick wrote:
    a man only needs 2 or 3 hrs of light rest sleep throughout the night to be good.
    eyed can have finger on bear spray can and sleep.
    good to go.
    tent = steel shelter like a castle.
    eyed woman is safe.

    a grizzly once told me eyed has a large

    A large what? Video? Yes, I agree, 6 minutes is too long.
  • RygarRygar Posts: 8,685
    chadwick wrote:
    eyedclaar wrote:
    chadwick wrote:
    well done, Sir.
    i know you werent scared.
    if the bear did attack i know you'd have hit him in the face.


    Yeah, my heart pounding up in my throat was surely not a symptom of terror; it was just me getting ready to pounce on the big beast.
    i understand that heartbeat.
    happens to me everytime a butterfly comes near me.

    bears and butterflies... bad news when agitated
    You mean a double rainbow?
  • chadwickchadwick Posts: 21,157
    Rygar wrote:
    You mean a double rainbow?
    the double rainbow guy.... what does it mean? :o
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."
    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
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