Grizzlys

[Lovinmy74]

A fella in Kalispell heard about a gutshot deer someone found so he set up a game camera to see if he could get some pics of some wolves....I dont think the wolves were invited.
This is why I dont hike in glacier park.

[78Squire400M]

I still find it amusing that they won't let anyone carry up there. What do they expect one to carry for protection, a willow switch?? I went to the Elk Foundation visitors center in Missoula on Saturday, and was looking at a 10'2" Kodiak they had on display.

I swear that bear had a smile on it's face, as if to say "Hmm, a hiker.......LUNCHTIME!!"

[Lovinmy74]

We just can't carry in the park, or take rocks, or pine cones out. Nothin in, Nothin out. Thats usually where all the maulings are too. At least one a year. I remember one year a retired couple hiking down a trail startled a G bear (thats what maulings are, ass kickings cause you popped up around the corner and got to close) The big fella was on top of the man and momma (she was close to 80 I think) started beating that bear across the nose with her flashlight and ended up chasing that bear off. Saved her husbands life. She was all over the papers and we thought she was the bravest woman alive but she was pretty modest. She kept saying there was nothing going to take her husband away from her.

I kept thinking, my wife would be running down that trail in the other direction as fast as she could go screaming her head off.

[Lovinmy74]

Hey squire I sent you a private message......Don't tell nobody.

[Sean]

My wife would have beat your wife to the car and be at the Starbucks drinking a low fat soy latted with vanilla before my heart quit beating.
Hey, I heard Lonny sent Squire a PM message today.

[BlueOvals]

The thing about grizzly bears is that no one reminds you there could be more than one at a time, like in your pic!!! Remember, if you are attacked by a bear, and not alone, you don't have to out run the bear, only the other guy!!

[72GTVA]

:D "The department is advising hikers, hunters and fishermen to take extra precautions. Keep alert to bears in the field.

"We also advise outdoorsmen to wear a string of noisy little bells outside their clothing so as not to startle the bear. We also advise them to carry a can of pepper spray.

"Another good idea is to look for fresh bear sign such as manure. Black bear manure is smaller and contains lots of berries and squirrel fur. Grizzly bear manure has little bells and smells like pepper spray." :D:D:p

[As Is '66]

I read or heard of th elderly couples encounter too...
It is QUITE a SURPRIZE to wake in th morning and see FRESH bear tracks around your tent in th freshly fallen snow...
That was THE Last time I went to that national forrest fer a campout...
Little bells in it huh???

[Lovinmy74]

Ya When we do go in the woods we hoot and holler and they get out of the way but still I don't know about pepper spray. They say it works but that would be a bad time to find out it don't.
I'll stick with the guns. We do have to modify the sights, we file the front site off so it don't hurt so much when the bear shoves it up your @#%.

[CCornell]

Those pics look like my in-laws at Sizzler's salad bar.....................:D:D

[rwitt]

Those pics look like my in-laws at Sizzler's salad bar.....................:D:D

I wasn't expecting that.......that's freakin' funny! :D:D

Have any of you seen the guy who designed the "bear suit"? I saw it on the Discovery channel. They ran a truck into him and he survived, but he had too be helped up cuz the suit was so big.

Maybe those pics are of when the "Grizzly Man" got eat up in Alaska.

[sarah]

A friend of ours lives up next to Pike National Forest. He raises horses and runs a little ranch up there...supposed Colorado does NOT have grizzlies.... hmmmmmmmmm well Mike had something eating his foal's and attacking the horses...so he set up bait... and well ... the bear he took down was not a black bear.... Grizzlies have a very distinctive look. So since the game warden said no such animal exists... Mike now has a very nice rug and a freezer full of meat. He figured he had to do something to protect his horses. He lost six during the year to a non existant grizzly bear.

[rwitt]

He killed Bigfoot!!

[sarah]

Actually he resides on Pikes Peak :D

[BlueOvals]

Most "big foot sightings" are bears!! A friend, a woman, was acousted by a bear while she was outdoors painting near Tahoe. She freaked when it got closer, reached for the pepper spray, sprayed herself, then puked violently, and the bear took off. Unorthodox method, I told her, but still effective!!

[burninbush]

LOL -- too disgusting to eat.

[sarah]

I have not had grizzly but have had Black bear and its quite tasty better than beef....

[john holmes]

Just make sure you can run faster then the guy next you, if not trip him, Survival of the fittest?

[Lovinmy74]

Thats what the gun is for, to shoot your buddy in the leg.....just in case he's faster than you.

[trikar]

I noticed paw prints in the snow on my back porch this morning, too big to be a dogs, might be a mountain lion or a bear.

[78Squire400M]

Hehehe, if I ever had to face down a Grizzly, I'd just start packing my back pockets full of peanut butter and jelly, cause I KNOW my a$$ is toast!!:D

That bear wouldn't be smellin' fear, he'd be smellin' Lincoln Logs, big enough to walk on.:eek:

[Lovinmy74]

Mountain lions scare me more than bears do. Bears just lumber around and demand respect, Mountain lions are all sneaky.

[rwitt]

I do alot of backpacking in the Smokies. There's about 900 miles of trails running thru the park. I've done approx. half of those and have NEVER seen a bear. My buddies have, but not me. One of the last trips we did, I was out front and climbing a hill. I noticed my friend wasn't behind me so I stopped and called for him. No answer. I called again and he "softly" yelled BEAR. I didn't hear him that well and yelled back. No answer. I waited a few minutes and he showed up. What happened was the bear was about 10-15 feet from the trail (in the weeds, brush) and I past right by him. When I yelled out to my friend, the bear sat up and my buddy was RIGHT THERE! Said it scared the crap right out of him. When I had yelled the second time, the bear took off.
Out of all the miles I've hiked, the only time I've seen a bear was when we went to Gatlinburg and we were eating at a Outback Steak house, a bear walked thru the parking lot to the dumpster. I had to go to the city (town) to see a freakin' bear!