Date:         Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:15:35 -0800
Reply-To:     Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Bear Attacks Camper NVC
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every once and a while i hear the distinct tones of banjo music welling up
inside the list emails
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Y'all know the rest
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On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Bob Stevens <mtbiker62@comcast.net> wrote:

> I guess I feel compelled to chime in related to my own infrequent
> experiences with bears and people who act worse than any animals I've come
> across.
>
> Camping 12 miles out at the end of a dead end road in Ketcham, ID a few
> years ago. 0230 someone in a large pick up truck pulls up in front of my
> van, where I had been asleep and begins honking and flashing brights ....
> this does NOT feel safe or hospitable  and I'm left wondering where it will
> go next. "Feels" like some intoxicated folks thinking who knows what and
> want some action. The night before I had arrived in the area and came across
> 2 black bears that were doing their best to avoid us onlookers (maybe 4 of
> us on a dirt road, same time, same place). All in all I felt compelled to
> arrange for protection and now have that. What it is doesn't matter but is
> of the usual variety. I was the only one camping out near the end of this
> road.
>
> I feel much safer now but also feel more confident I can "reason" with
> fauna more effectively and reasonably than homo sapiens acting badly.
>
> Bob Stevens
> '87 Syncro Westy
>



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