Back From Glacier & The Scariest Bear I Never Saw
eyedclaar
Posts: 6,980
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.
At least I have another story to write.
Idaho's Premier Outdoor Writer
Please Support My Writing Habit By Purchasing A Book:
https://www.createspace.com/3437020
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000663025696
http://earthtremors.blogspot.com/
Please Support My Writing Habit By Purchasing A Book:
https://www.createspace.com/3437020
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000663025696
http://earthtremors.blogspot.com/
Post edited by Unknown User on
0
Comments
i know you werent scared.
if the bear did attack i know you'd have hit him in the face.
"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
just stop it.
eyed is our super bear glacier mountain camping hero.
no severed hand.
"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
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.
Please Support My Writing Habit By Purchasing A Book:
https://www.createspace.com/3437020
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000663025696
http://earthtremors.blogspot.com/
happens to me everytime a butterfly comes near me.
bears and butterflies... bad news when agitated
"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
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!!
2 bullets right in the head ..case closed
if you can't fight off a grizzly with a spear you are a little girl.
wrestling bear is a great activity.
"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
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.
Please Support My Writing Habit By Purchasing A Book:
https://www.createspace.com/3437020
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000663025696
http://earthtremors.blogspot.com/
"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
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.
Please Support My Writing Habit By Purchasing A Book:
https://www.createspace.com/3437020
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000663025696
http://earthtremors.blogspot.com/
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.
OH SHIT WE'RE ABOUT TO GET EATEN BY A GRIZZLY!!!! (30 seconds later - Snoooooooooze).
Please Support My Writing Habit By Purchasing A Book:
https://www.createspace.com/3437020
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000663025696
http://earthtremors.blogspot.com/
Alright, this I gotta know:
1) Please tell us, verbatim, what you said to the bear, and
2) Did he say anything back
Also
3) What the #(*$&@ is "bear spray"?
and finally
4) Did you marry the right woman or what?!
That would have been me, unconscious in a pool of bodily fluids.
"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
this story makes me erect.
i love savage men.
wait... mirror
:lolno: :evil:
"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
Can bears steal cars?
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!
Please Support My Writing Habit By Purchasing A Book:
https://www.createspace.com/3437020
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000663025696
http://earthtremors.blogspot.com/
Can bears steal cars? What kind of question is that? Of course, bears steal cars and car accessories...
Please Support My Writing Habit By Purchasing A Book:
https://www.createspace.com/3437020
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000663025696
http://earthtremors.blogspot.com/
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
"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
let's watch together
"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
I think he ate the car. And he's using that as a toothpick, oh I can't look.
A large what? Video? Yes, I agree, 6 minutes is too long.
"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