To Quote Steven Wright(presumably driving his Vanagon in the wilderness) " Christmas tinsel is really snake mirrors. So when you take down your Christmas tree, save some tinsel for your next walk in the woods so when you come up on a snake, you can just shake the tinsel at the snake and it will go away. Even snakes don't like to look at snakes". DM&FS At 01:06 PM 1/26/2009, David Kao wrote: >--- On Fri, 1/23/09, neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > > > > >...... I've always been more worried about cougars > > > than bears 'cause you might not hear them coming. > > > >I have been more worried about mountain lions too. I used >to hike in a state park with 87,000 acres of hills and >forest. I am sure it is home of plenty of mountain lions. >I have stopped going there after hearing many sightings >of them on the foothills near the park. > >I did expect to see some rattlers. But I have not seen one >yet. I did run into groups of cattles in the park. They >weigh like a ton each. In the spring there are usually some >new born in the group. That's when you need to stay far away >from them. Henry Coe State Park is what I am talking about. > >In Yosemite there are a lot of black bears. But bear attack >on human is very rare. However, bear attacks on cars or vans >happen a lot (over a hundred a year I think). I somewhat >worry about black bear attacking my Westy more than anything >else when visiting Yosemite. For this reason I don't cook >or eat in my Westy any more. It would become a target of black >bears in Yosemite. > >David |
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