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Posted: 10/22/2016 8:51:38 PM EDT
Yup. I'd go back the other way. That's a big fucking grizzly that should be getting ready to bed down.
"That Moment You Realize That Maybe You Should Turn Around And Get The Heck Out Of There. Look At The Size Of These Fresh Brown Bear Tracks At McHugh Creek Earlier Today." Photo By Todd Patten. 
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Posted: 10/22/2016 8:53:43 PM EDT
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Good Call.
Or, we're going to need a bigger gun. |
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Posted: 10/22/2016 8:54:32 PM EDT
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A bear destroyed the dumpster a building down last night.
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Posted: 10/22/2016 8:55:38 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/22/2016 8:56:02 PM EDT
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A bear destroyed the dumpster a building down last night. Seriously? Fuckers are supposed to be heading to bed around now.  Gotta be the weird weather the last few years messing with their hibernation patterns.
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Posted: 10/22/2016 8:56:07 PM EDT
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My dog chased a black bear almost two weeks ago. Thankfully their timid creatures (unless it's a sow with cubs).
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Posted: 10/22/2016 8:57:26 PM EDT
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My dog chased a black bear almost two weeks ago. Thankfully their timid creatures (unless it's a sow with cubs). Really depends, but yeah. A griz is more likely to maul you, but a black is more likely to kill you if it mauls you. At least that's what I've always heard up here. |
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Posted: 10/22/2016 9:19:14 PM EDT
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I lived in Indian in 1995 when a bear killed two people hiking McHugh, kid escaped by climbing a tree iirc they got too close to the bear's food cache.
That had the people in the neighborhood spooked for a while, that's not too far away as the crow flies. |
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Posted: 10/22/2016 9:26:03 PM EDT
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Quoted: Yup. I'd go back the other way. That's a big fucking grizzly that should be getting ready to bed down. "That Moment You Realize That Maybe You Should Turn Around And Get The Heck Out Of There. Look At The Size Of These Fresh Brown Bear Tracks At McHugh Creek Earlier Today." Photo By Todd Patten. https://scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14720487_1318948498125719_8104411001551240949_n.jpg?oh=a28019b63d93332c8b8d578009d8e069&oe=58AC6849 |
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Posted: 10/22/2016 9:26:55 PM EDT
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I lived in Indian in 1995 when a bear killed two people hiking McHugh, kid escaped by climbing a tree iirc they got too close to the bear's food cache. That had the people in the neighborhood spooked for a while, that's not too far away as the crow flies. It was 98 when a grizzly sow and cubs killed 3 folks just a mile or two (straight line) from where I grew up and where everyone fished. Same effect, everyone was spooked for a good while. Every now and again, you'll see a story of a grizzly just killing the shit out of folks like that. 
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Posted: 10/22/2016 9:29:33 PM EDT
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Fucking pussies ...
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Posted: 10/22/2016 9:30:53 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryThat commercial is always good for a laugh. 
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Posted: 10/22/2016 9:55:59 PM EDT
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OP it is not a grizzly, it is a brown bear. A griz kills you slow and then eats you, while a Brown bear eats you to death.
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Posted: 10/22/2016 10:00:45 PM EDT
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I watched a documentary about a guy that liked to live out near the bears while studying them, they let him get real close many times over years. I don't know what changed but they ate him finally!
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Posted: 10/22/2016 10:09:01 PM EDT
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A bear destroyed the dumpster a building down last night. Destroyed a metal dumpster?? |
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Posted: 10/22/2016 10:36:01 PM EDT
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Some friends and I went camping up in the mountains last weekend. On the way out we saw our path was blocked. It must have just happened because we had passed a small car heading the other way just a mile before. To go out the other way would take at least 1 1/2 hours just to get back to a black top road.
I hooked a tow strap up to my Bronco and snatched on it a few times to get it down on the road so we could saw it up. It took about 45 minutes but we got it and rolled some over the 100ft drop off on one side and into the gutter on the other side. We should send the Forest Service a bill.
That's my dad with his back to the camera sawing it up. 
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Posted: 10/22/2016 10:38:53 PM EDT
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Posted: 10/22/2016 10:40:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryI'm glad someone saved that gif from the 2002 Internet |
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Posted: 10/22/2016 10:45:59 PM EDT
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Sometimes you don't have a choice.
We were descending a tight drainage in the NWT behind tracks and scat. Obviously a brown bear, several of them. But, there wasn't much alternative but to press on, and down the drainage. We eventually crossed paths with her and her cubs. Speaking for myself, I was so exhausted, that being mauled to death would have been a welcomed relief from the misery I was already in. But, things turned out ok. |
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Posted: 10/22/2016 10:47:50 PM EDT
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"That moment you realize that maybe you should have brought a Bofors gun instead of a DSLR."
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Posted: 10/22/2016 10:48:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryBottom right - Anyone know which ArfCommer he is? |
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Posted: 10/22/2016 10:50:03 PM EDT
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Bottom right - Anyone know which ArfCommer he is? Quote HistoryRustedAce? That does look like typical FEMA wear
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Posted: 10/22/2016 10:51:31 PM EDT
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RustedAce? That does look like typical FEMA wear Quote HistoryQuoted:
RustedAce? That does look like typical FEMA wear I can't imagine the shoehat staying on through the course. |
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Posted: 10/22/2016 10:52:58 PM EDT
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I was hiking in the Chugach Mountains once and I nearly walked up on a huge grizz that was pawing at some grubs in the underbrush.
This was around 6 a.m., shortly after I had struck my overnight camp to head back to civilization. I was, like, HO-LEE-FUK! I backed away real slow and quiet, and made a huge dog-leg detour around it. Luckily for me, it didn't scent me because I was downwind from it. I don't know how that encounter would have ended otherwise. |
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Posted: 10/22/2016 11:14:46 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I watched a documentary about a guy that liked to live out near the bears while studying them, they let him get real close many times over years. I don't know what changed but they ate him finally! |
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Posted: 10/22/2016 11:27:47 PM EDT
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Timmy Treadwell, with a fox named....timmy. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I watched a documentary about a guy that liked to live out near the bears while studying them, they let him get real close many times over years. I don't know what changed but they ate him finally! They bears had a lot of food and he wasn't worth the energy to chase down and eat. Fish run started to slow and they realized it was easier to kill and eat him than spend all afternoon to get two fish. And it wasn't an easy going. Nope. Got his girlfriend killed too. I am firmly in the "even if you THINK the bear is going to charge, shoot it. Shoot it again. KEEP SHOOTING" mentality. But most of the HTF guys know people that have gotten mauled. Pretty sure one of our HTF guys was a while back, but can't remember if true or not.
Red text is me.
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Posted: 10/22/2016 11:32:20 PM EDT
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I watched a documentary about a guy that liked to live out near the bears while studying them, they let him get real close many times over years. I don't know what changed but they ate him finally! The photographer for National Geographic? He went to Kamchatka to study/document Russian brown bears, they killed him and ate him. |
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Posted: 10/22/2016 11:56:16 PM EDT
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The photographer for National Geographic? He went to Kamchatka to study/document Russian brown bears, they killed him and ate him. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I watched a documentary about a guy that liked to live out near the bears while studying them, they let him get real close many times over years. I don't know what changed but they ate him finally! The photographer for National Geographic? He went to Kamchatka to study/document Russian brown bears, they killed him and ate him. That's the big thing that people need to realize about the wild areas like Alaska. If you get complacent, nature will rape and kill you in any order it likes. Hell, look at that fuckwit that starved to death in Denali Park. Christopher McCandless went in thinking he was all that, and ended up dead because of it. Oddly enough, the latest stuff I read about was part of his death was due to stupidity and sheer dumb luck. WIld potato contains Oxalyldiaminopropionic acid (ODAP) which won't really affect a healthy person in regular doses. Now a highly stressed and malnourished one on a diet heavy with it, would get all sorts of fucked up from it and eventually die from weakness and being unable to get food other than the potatoes that were poisoning him. Stupidity kills you. 
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Posted: 10/23/2016 12:01:27 AM EDT
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Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.....
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Posted: 10/23/2016 12:08:03 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/23/2016 12:11:10 AM EDT
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The photographer for National Geographic? He went to Kamchatka to study/document Russian brown bears, they killed him and ate him. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I watched a documentary about a guy that liked to live out near the bears while studying them, they let him get real close many times over years. I don't know what changed but they ate him finally! The photographer for National Geographic? He went to Kamchatka to study/document Russian brown bears, they killed him and ate him. Michio Hoshino was the photog. Or are you referring to Timothy Treadwell? |
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Posted: 10/23/2016 12:21:35 AM EDT
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That's the big thing that people need to realize about the wild areas like Alaska. If you get complacent, nature will rape and kill you in any order it likes. Hell, look at that fuckwit that starved to death in Denali Park. Christopher McCandless went in thinking he was all that, and ended up dead because of it. Oddly enough, the latest stuff I read about was part of his death was due to stupidity and sheer dumb luck. WIld potato contains Oxalyldiaminopropionic acid (ODAP) which won't really affect a healthy person in regular doses. Now a highly stressed and malnourished one on a diet heavy with it, would get all sorts of fucked up from it and eventually die from weakness and being unable to get food other than the potatoes that were poisoning him. Stupidity kills you. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I watched a documentary about a guy that liked to live out near the bears while studying them, they let him get real close many times over years. I don't know what changed but they ate him finally! The photographer for National Geographic? He went to Kamchatka to study/document Russian brown bears, they killed him and ate him. That's the big thing that people need to realize about the wild areas like Alaska. If you get complacent, nature will rape and kill you in any order it likes. Hell, look at that fuckwit that starved to death in Denali Park. Christopher McCandless went in thinking he was all that, and ended up dead because of it. Oddly enough, the latest stuff I read about was part of his death was due to stupidity and sheer dumb luck. WIld potato contains Oxalyldiaminopropionic acid (ODAP) which won't really affect a healthy person in regular doses. Now a highly stressed and malnourished one on a diet heavy with it, would get all sorts of fucked up from it and eventually die from weakness and being unable to get food other than the potatoes that were poisoning him. Stupidity kills you. Would you have known that without looking it up (after having a motion picture made about it) or would you simply avoid going "out in the wild" like he did? |
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Posted: 10/23/2016 12:26:49 AM EDT
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I watched a documentary about a guy that liked to live out near the bears while studying them, they let him get real close many times over years. I don't know what changed but they ate him finally! Funniest documentary, EVAR! |
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Posted: 10/23/2016 12:43:49 AM EDT
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Would you have known that without looking it up (after having a motion picture made about it) or would you simply avoid going "out in the wild" like he did? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I watched a documentary about a guy that liked to live out near the bears while studying them, they let him get real close many times over years. I don't know what changed but they ate him finally! The photographer for National Geographic? He went to Kamchatka to study/document Russian brown bears, they killed him and ate him. That's the big thing that people need to realize about the wild areas like Alaska. If you get complacent, nature will rape and kill you in any order it likes. Hell, look at that fuckwit that starved to death in Denali Park. Christopher McCandless went in thinking he was all that, and ended up dead because of it. Oddly enough, the latest stuff I read about was part of his death was due to stupidity and sheer dumb luck. WIld potato contains Oxalyldiaminopropionic acid (ODAP) which won't really affect a healthy person in regular doses. Now a highly stressed and malnourished one on a diet heavy with it, would get all sorts of fucked up from it and eventually die from weakness and being unable to get food other than the potatoes that were poisoning him. Stupidity kills you. Would you have known that without looking it up (after having a motion picture made about it) or would you simply avoid going "out in the wild" like he did? I've never seen the movie so *shrug* There's a lot of stuff that'll kill you up here, so the simple answer is if you aren't 100% sure, don't stick it in your dumbass mouth. If you start getting low on supplies, head back, etc. Common sense stuff really. I grew up here and know better than to go into the woods half equipped like an idiot. Have a plan, let people know where you'll be, etc. I usually go with at least one other person anyhow. Better to have someone able to go for backup than being stuck in bumfuck nowhere and hoping for someone. Especially when you can be the only person for a hundred miles. |
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Posted: 10/23/2016 12:44:33 AM EDT
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Big blackie and 2 cubs. The cubs went up a tree to check us out, dog confronts mom, gets chased. Comes back and bluffs me. I scream like a girl. I realized i was filming like an asshole at first and change the orientation a little ways into it because i didnt want arf to get pissed at me. Good times.
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Posted: 10/23/2016 12:46:02 AM EDT
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Big blackie and 2 cubs. The cubs went up a tree to check us out, dog confronts mom, gets chased. Comes back and bluffs me. I scream like a girl. I realized i was filming like an asshole at first and change the orientation a little ways into it because i didnt want arf to get pissed at me. Good times. https://youtu.be/vthHvzDLJCo  Yeah, you'd be getting crap about vertical filming while getting ripped apart in the comments here
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Posted: 10/23/2016 12:52:55 AM EDT
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Yeah, you'd be getting crap about vertical filming while getting ripped apart in the comments here Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Big blackie and 2 cubs. The cubs went up a tree to check us out, dog confronts mom, gets chased. Comes back and bluffs me. I scream like a girl. I realized i was filming like an asshole at first and change the orientation a little ways into it because i didnt want arf to get pissed at me. Good times. https://youtu.be/vthHvzDLJCo Yeah, you'd be getting crap about vertical filming while getting ripped apart in the comments here Its just the natural way you want to hold the phone. I couldnt help it arf, forgive my transgressions. Haha. |
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Posted: 10/23/2016 12:55:00 AM EDT
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Its just the natural way you want to hold the phone. I couldnt help it arf, forgive my transgressions. Haha. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Big blackie and 2 cubs. The cubs went up a tree to check us out, dog confronts mom, gets chased. Comes back and bluffs me. I scream like a girl. I realized i was filming like an asshole at first and change the orientation a little ways into it because i didnt want arf to get pissed at me. Good times. https://youtu.be/vthHvzDLJCo Yeah, you'd be getting crap about vertical filming while getting ripped apart in the comments here Its just the natural way you want to hold the phone. I couldnt help it arf, forgive my transgressions. Haha. NO! Stop holding in your liver and record video like a man! 
(I do it on occasion till I catch myself  )
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Posted: 10/23/2016 12:56:49 AM EDT
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I'm with you there OP, nature doesn't care who wins or loses but gives some nice warning signs sometimes.
I was hunting bull elk just this week in eastern Idaho in the palisades area and I climbed to the top of a mountain stalking a good sized bull. On the way up I was so focused on the elk that I didn't notice the three bull moose about 200 yards away in a draw. It's quite a sight seeing them battle it out, I have no idea how I didn't hear all the commotion they were making (this SHOULD have been a sign). Being a younger man in full elk fever, I took a wide berth away from those bubbas continuing up and thanked the lucky stars that the wind was blowing in a way beneficial to me. I made it to the top and glassed most of the mountain sides in the hopes of finding mr bull elk. In the process of doing that I quietly passed through a group of pine and aspen trees into a clearing about 100 yards, glassed some more area, and then turned around to check six. To my surprise, and heartfelt consternation, was a large cow moose about 50 yards away in a full trot towards me with a calf in tow. I turned and ran the fastest 100 yard dash I think I've ever done, with a pack, 338 rifle, and full outfit. Thankfully, she had given up the chase when I turned around to check if I was going to be stomped on the top of this mountain while I was by myself. After that I decided I had enough hunting on the mountain for that day, made my way safely down, and wished I had put in for some draws for moose tags. The End. |
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Posted: 10/23/2016 12:56:50 AM EDT
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Yeah, you'd be getting crap about vertical filming while getting ripped apart in the comments here Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Big blackie and 2 cubs. The cubs went up a tree to check us out, dog confronts mom, gets chased. Comes back and bluffs me. I scream like a girl. I realized i was filming like an asshole at first and change the orientation a little ways into it because i didnt want arf to get pissed at me. Good times. https://youtu.be/vthHvzDLJCo Yeah, you'd be getting crap about vertical filming while getting ripped apart in the comments here Yup you sure would.
You can tuck your intestines back in later. Your dog is nuts. Cool video. |
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Posted: 10/23/2016 1:09:19 AM EDT
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I'm with you there OP, nature doesn't care who wins or loses but gives some nice warning signs sometimes. I was hunting bull elk just this week in eastern Idaho in the palisades area and I climbed to the top of a mountain stalking a good sized bull. On the way up I was so focused on the elk that I didn't notice the three bull moose about 200 yards away in a draw. It's quite a sight seeing them battle it out, I have no idea how I didn't hear all the commotion they were making (this SHOULD have been a sign). Being a younger man in full elk fever, I took a wide berth away from those bubbas continuing up and thanked the lucky stars that the wind was blowing in a way beneficial to me. I made it to the top and glassed most of the mountain sides in the hopes of finding mr bull elk. In the process of doing that I quietly passed through a group of pine and aspen trees into a clearing about 100 yards, glassed some more area, and then turned around to check six. To my surprise, and heartfelt consternation, was a large cow moose about 50 yards away in a full trot towards me with a calf in tow. I turned and ran the fastest 100 yard dash I think I've ever done, with a pack, 338 rifle, and full outfit. Thankfully, she had given up the chase when I turned around to check if I was going to be stomped on the top of this mountain while I was by myself. After that I decided I had enough hunting on the mountain for that day, made my way safely down, and wished I had put in for some draws for moose tags. The End. Yikes. Mama moose is not to be fucked with, so good running like hell. Amazing how fast it can go from regular life to crapping your pants, ain't it. Worst one for me was getting ready for work one morning, going out to start the truck and hearing noise behind me. Mama and calf were munching on the birch tree I walked right by to get to the truck. That was the fastest unass I'd done in my life
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Posted: 10/23/2016 1:11:34 AM EDT
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I watched a documentary about a guy that liked to live out near the bears while studying them, they let him get real close many times over years. I don't know what changed but they ate him finally! Treadwell was a fuckin lunatic. He does not represent Alaskans in any light. |
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Posted: 10/23/2016 1:46:40 AM EDT
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Treadwell was a fuckin lunatic. He does not represent Alaskans in any light. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I watched a documentary about a guy that liked to live out near the bears while studying them, they let him get real close many times over years. I don't know what changed but they ate him finally! Treadwell was a fuckin lunatic. He does not represent Alaskans in any light. He was from Long Island, NY so he doesn't qualify as one of us anyhow.
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Posted: 10/23/2016 3:29:33 AM EDT
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He was from Long Island, NY so he doesn't qualify as one of us anyhow. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I watched a documentary about a guy that liked to live out near the bears while studying them, they let him get real close many times over years. I don't know what changed but they ate him finally! Treadwell was a fuckin lunatic. He does not represent Alaskans in any light. He was from Long Island, NY so he doesn't qualify as one of us anyhow. Fuckin hell that's like the polar opposite of an Alaskan. |
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Posted: 10/23/2016 3:35:29 AM EDT
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Some friends and I went camping up in the mountains last weekend. On the way out we saw our path was blocked. It must have just happened because we had passed a small car heading the other way just a mile before. To go out the other way would take at least 1 1/2 hours just to get back to a black top road. https://i.imgur.com/3uoEss4.jpg I hooked a tow strap up to my Bronco and snatched on it a few times to get it down on the road so we could saw it up. It took about 45 minutes but we got it and rolled some over the 100ft drop off on one side and into the gutter on the other side. We should send the Forest Service a bill.
That's my dad with his back to the camera sawing it up. https://i.imgur.com/EUwlUDJ.jpg That road looks like the north fork of Piney River above Woodson |
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Posted: 10/23/2016 3:37:31 AM EDT
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Why I always carry and hike with people whom I think can't keep up with me. If they prove me wrong one shot to the knee I'm in the clear
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Posted: 10/23/2016 3:39:32 AM EDT
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Fuckin scorpions. There is no mystery what their intentions are.
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Posted: 10/23/2016 3:46:58 AM EDT
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A bear destroyed the dumpster a building down last night. Destroyed a metal dumpster?? Ripped the top off and spread trash everywhere. |
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Posted: 10/23/2016 3:47:37 AM EDT
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Posted: 10/23/2016 3:48:13 AM EDT
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Why I always carry and hike with people whom I think can't keep up with me. If they prove me wrong one shot to the knee I'm in the clear That's why I go loaded for bear I'm the fat and slow friend.
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Posted: 10/23/2016 3:48:30 AM EDT
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I've never seen the movie so *shrug* There's a lot of stuff that'll kill you up here, so the simple answer is if you aren't 100% sure, don't stick it in your dumbass mouth. If you start getting low on supplies, head back, etc. Common sense stuff really. I grew up here and know better than to go into the woods half equipped like an idiot. Have a plan, let people know where you'll be, etc. I usually go with at least one other person anyhow. Better to have someone able to go for backup than being stuck in bumfuck nowhere and hoping for someone. Especially when you can be the only person for a hundred miles. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I watched a documentary about a guy that liked to live out near the bears while studying them, they let him get real close many times over years. I don't know what changed but they ate him finally! The photographer for National Geographic? He went to Kamchatka to study/document Russian brown bears, they killed him and ate him. That's the big thing that people need to realize about the wild areas like Alaska. If you get complacent, nature will rape and kill you in any order it likes. Hell, look at that fuckwit that starved to death in Denali Park. Christopher McCandless went in thinking he was all that, and ended up dead because of it. Oddly enough, the latest stuff I read about was part of his death was due to stupidity and sheer dumb luck. WIld potato contains Oxalyldiaminopropionic acid (ODAP) which won't really affect a healthy person in regular doses. Now a highly stressed and malnourished one on a diet heavy with it, would get all sorts of fucked up from it and eventually die from weakness and being unable to get food other than the potatoes that were poisoning him. Stupidity kills you. Would you have known that without looking it up (after having a motion picture made about it) or would you simply avoid going "out in the wild" like he did? I've never seen the movie so *shrug* There's a lot of stuff that'll kill you up here, so the simple answer is if you aren't 100% sure, don't stick it in your dumbass mouth. If you start getting low on supplies, head back, etc. Common sense stuff really. I grew up here and know better than to go into the woods half equipped like an idiot. Have a plan, let people know where you'll be, etc. I usually go with at least one other person anyhow. Better to have someone able to go for backup than being stuck in bumfuck nowhere and hoping for someone. Especially when you can be the only person for a hundred miles. I don't go outside of visual range of the road without a gun. |
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