Another Stupid Hiker Question: Bearbells

[Termite Man]

Not much knife crime here: but we have a fuckload of bears.

What if someone gave all the bears a knife each

 

[stuff_it]

I feel sorry for kids, so often grown ups really won't even give them a rizla or the time of day, expecting them to find something to do other than hang about when there isn't anything.

 

[Termite Man]

I'm going to the pyrenees. They used to have lots of bears but now they don't

 

[stuff_it]

They're waiting for you YP...

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

They're waiting for you YP...

At least they want something I'm good at.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Oh, and too many pies.

So do we. I'd bet more americans die from pie than from bears by a far margin.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Seeing as your allowed to own guns, why don't more hikers go armed?

Last time I checked, you weren't allowed to carry guns in a National Park and there was a large fine for using one on a bear. Ironic isn't it?

 

[Pseudopsycho]

What if someone gave all the bears a knife each

Resists posting Bear Cavalry pics...

eta: sod it cause it's one that's not been put up yet...

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

LOL! They should make a movie about that! It would be way better than that shitty Walberg remake of Planet of Apes.

 

[mauvais]

From what I've read they don't always behave according to type anyway.

Looking for some video I remembered about bears climbing to get to a food bag in a tree and found this.

Oh good now we're all afraid of bears.

Finding an entrance where they can. Climbing on your rooftop / down your chimney / in your anus. Bears! Bears! Bears bears bears bears give it up now.

 

[Pseudopsycho]

Oh good now we're all afraid of bears.

Finding an entrance where they can. Climbing on your rooftop / down your chimney / in your anus. Bears! Bears! Bears bears bears bears give it up now.

We've always been afraid of Bears, as omnivores we compete with the for food and as massive clawed beasties they eat us

I still think they're cool though

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I doubt it would work with bears.

Not sure that anyone's tried it yet.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

What if someone gave all the bears a knife each

 

[Pseudopsycho]

and they're sticking out 3-4" past the paw....

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

The bad reality:

The boy was walking less than three metres in front of his parents when the cougar emerged from a forested area at the edge of the beach and pounced.
Another child with the family was uninjured.

Family members reportedly wrested the child from the claws of the cat, and the child was rushed by ambulance to nearby Tofino hospital to be treated for injuries.

He was then airlifted to B.C. Children's Hospital in Vancouver.

Global B.C. reported that the boy had been seized by the head and had three puncture wounds to the skull, requiring more than two hours of brain surgery, according to his mother. He had another puncture wound to the chest, as well as claw marks on his chest and back.

http://www.theprovince.com/travel/Cougar+attacks+toddler/5332430/story.html

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

You know Moab is looking better all the time.

 

[dylanredefined]

Either take a gun or a fat person with you (as they will be a great decoy).Getting killed by a wild animal in a 1st world country is a very stupid way to go imho.

 

[spanglechick]

Seeing as your allowed to own guns, why don't more hikers go armed?

Because in America they have the right to arm bears.

 

[stuff_it]

and they're sticking out 3-4" past the paw....

Good, then they would get arrested for that in the UK.

*feels safer*

They're waiting for youuuuuu.....

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Either take a gun or a fat person with you (as they will be a great decoy).Getting killed by a wild animal in a 1st world country is a very stupid way to go imho.

Like they say, you don't have to be faster than the bear; just faster than someone else in the group.

 

[Pseudopsycho]

Hannibal Lecter Vs Bear:

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

I'm happy to report that I haven't been eaten by bears.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

It turned out that the most dangerous thing I encountered the entire trip was the free buffet at the Jackson Hole Art Auction. One poor man, at the buffet, collapsed from a heart attack. The rescue crew was right there and did CPR for 20 minutes before they put him in the ambulance and hauled ass for the hospital. By the looks of him, I don't think he made it. I feel bad because I saw that he was pale and sweaty earlier and didn't put two and two together.

I've never been to an auction where they walked through and seved bottles of wine. On the other hand one item went for 1.4 million. If someone's shelling out than kind of cash they can afford to crack open a bottle or two.

No live bears were encountered the entire trip.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I've never been to an auction where they walked through and seved bottles of wine.

God, woman: you haven't lived...

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

God, woman: you haven't lived...

LOL. My previous auction reference is the livestock sale barn. I've sometimes seen bulls go for $20K or so.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

My auction experience is mostly is going with my wife to watch them auction off the crap from some estate.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

The thing I really learned on this trip was if a Park Ranger describes a road as "narrow, but passable." Be afraid. Be very afraid!

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

The thing I really learned on this trip was if a Park Ranger describes a road as "narrow, but passable." Be afraid. Be very afraid!

I liked Jackson Hole a lot.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

I liked Jackson Hole a lot.

I like Jackson Hole a lot too. The people are generally pretty friendly. I sat next to a woman named Julie at the auction. She was very nice and generally down to earth. She very calmly bought a painting for $240K. I almost had to clean my pants when the auctioneer started pointing my direction to accept bids.

I liked the mountains better in Glacier though. The hiking was amazing. I spent several days hiking mostly out of Two Medicine and hiked part of the Continental Divide Trail.