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So last night I was going to camp at this campground at the end of a closed FS road. The first 13 miles were paved, and the remaining two were dirt/gravel. The grade was very slight. It gained maybe 500 ft over the 15 miles.  I didn't get out of town as early as I had hoped and it was full on dark before I got to where I was going to camp. Anyway, I'm pedaling up this valley. Probably on about mile 7 of 15.

There's this down hill stretch so I'm cruising maybe 25ish. I come around this corner and there's a Black Bear in the road. I can barely make it out in the bike headlight. He starts running away from me up the road. I"m braking so that I don't get to close. I"m ~30ft off his left shoulder, we're both going the same speed for 2 or 3 seconds. He finally veers right and charges up the hillside into the timber.

They say that they are more afraid of us than we are of them. I had planned to sleep in a tarp on the ground. I ended up pedaling all the way back to my car and I slept in the car.

Saturday morning was pretty uneventful. I found a 5 - 10 year old clearcut and was trying to call in a bear. The bear never showed up but a coyote did. I watched it for a while then it ran off. Saw a porcupine, and a deer. Mule deer doe. It had some kind of growth on it's hind quarter. It was the size of a cantaloupe, and it was all wrinkled like a brain. Weird.

One of these weekend, I'll get to say BBD...



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Re: Almost ran over a black bear with my Mt. Bike in the dark last night...
« Reply #1 on: September 01, 2013, 08:40:02 PM »
Sounds like a great time.  Only putting a bear down probably could of made it better.  Hopefully I too can say bear down one of these days. 

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Re: Almost ran over a black bear with my Mt. Bike in the dark last night...
« Reply #2 on: September 01, 2013, 08:51:26 PM »

They say that they are more afraid of us than we are of them. I had planned to sleep in a tarp on the ground. I ended up pedaling all the way back to my car and I slept in the car.


Great story, and I'm right there with you. My buddy and I were "chased" by a bear in Grand Teton National Park, near Jenny Lake. Just before he ate us for lunch, he took a hard right, swam across the lake and parted a crowd of tourists on his way to beating the crap out of some metal garbage cans. Later that day, we hiked up to a bivouac below the Grand Teton. Half way to camp, we heard a ruckus below. There was a cub digging for bugs in a stump, mama probably near by. At this point, I'm totally freaked out by bears and we ran up the trail (with packs full of climbing and camp gear) 1/4 mile.

It took me a couple of years to get over being irrational about bears. One night under Mt. Index, the same buddy called me a puss for sleeping in the car. About 1 a.m., he heard noise in the woods and came running to the car! LOL

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Re: Almost ran over a black bear with my Mt. Bike in the dark last night...
« Reply #3 on: September 01, 2013, 10:12:41 PM »
 :tup:  great story

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Re: Almost ran over a black bear with my Mt. Bike in the dark last night...
« Reply #4 on: September 03, 2013, 12:07:55 PM »

It took me a couple of years to get over being irrational about bears. One night under Mt. Index, the same buddy called me a puss for sleeping in the car. About 1 a.m., he heard noise in the woods and came running to the car! LOL


That's some funny stuff...

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Re: Almost ran over a black bear with my Mt. Bike in the dark last night...
« Reply #5 on: September 03, 2013, 12:14:35 PM »
Lol.

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Re: Almost ran over a black bear with my Mt. Bike in the dark last night...
« Reply #6 on: September 03, 2013, 12:17:40 PM »
Fun story. Thanks Samck
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