Post by: 6.8mmARHunter on August 31, 2013, 07:03:57 PM
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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Post by: oldschooltrucks on September 01, 2013, 08:40:02 PM
Post by: pope 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
Post by: oldschooltrucks on September 01, 2013, 10:12:41 PM
Post by: 6.8mmARHunter 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...
Post by: wildmanoutdoors on September 03, 2013, 12:14:35 PM
Post by: pianoman9701 on September 03, 2013, 12:17:40 PM