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Pastimes : Bear Stories
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To: ManyMoose who started this subject12/18/2000 10:39:11 PM
From: ManyMoose   of 6879
 
I can't be the only one with bear stories. Come on folks.

Here's one for starters.

Cruising timber up near the Canadian Border, my partner and I built a lunch fire in a big white pine snag. Usually they make pretty good lunch fires, but this time a lot of wet pine cone scales kept falling down on the fire. The day was not too cold, so we just endured the smoke and sat in the snow. The smoke was so thick we could hardly eat our sandwiches and drink our coffee.

We had just about finished when the snag started swaying back and forth. Fearful it might fall on us, we backed off a few paces. By now the fire was getting pretty hot and the smoke was burning into flames. But the snag shook like nothing we had seen before. What the heck????

Looking up at the top of the snag, I saw two beady brown eyes peering down at us. And a black nose. But that bear was not coming down of that snag. No Siree! That was his den and he was sticking to it.

Soon we began to fear the fire might be getting too hot, so we backed off a hundred yards. The bear took our cue and climbed up to the very top of the snag. At the last possible moment he reached out and stepped over to a branch on a green tree next to the snag. Just then the snag fell down in a shower of sparks.

We watched while the bear climbed down and ambled off in the snow. With deep regret, we realized that he would be disadvantaged in finding another den that late in the fall. We wished him well, and have never forgotten him to this day.
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