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To: Patsyw who wrote (68354)	10/24/2000 8:19:46 PM
From: Jim Bishop	Respond to of 150070

LOL Patsy, at least you had cabin walls between you and him...he'd probably be hung over now if he'd eaten you. I've had lots of encounters with bears while fishing, hiking, climbing, camping....luckily only two with grizzly bears. Browns and blacks, unless cubs or food are involved, are generally just as surprised as you, and split real quick. Here's one I still chuckle about. In the mountains with my wife, my two year old daughter and her grandmother...wife and I slept in a tent, daughter and grandma slept a VW camper I'd borrowed. Just before dawn, but light enough to see, my wife gets up, goes behind the tent to pee. Maybe I dozed off for a minute, maybe not, but it seemed like she was taking an awfully long time to come back so, I stick my head out the tent door, hear a knocking noise, look at the van, and there are these two faces in the window, they're knocking on the window, and pointing frantically sort of towards me. That's when I hear this snuffling noise behind the tent. At first I was going to just sit quietly, but when that thing pushed up on the back of the tent......well I'm not sure if my feet touched the ground on the way to the van. I never did actually see the bear, just heard him. My wife was still shaking 1/2 hour later, as she heard the same snuffling, snorting noise RIGHT BEHIND her.... while she was squatting doing her thing. LOL, another time, a grizzly, two brothers, two rifles, 3 horses, me, and the words "here Jim you go in and flush him out for us" as one brother hands me a .22 pistol. Ya right. LOL, another time, two guys flyfishing out of boats, me in a float tube (some call them "belly boats"), big black bear swimming towards us, don't think he can see us well, but one guy says....."he sees that big brown doughnut in the water, with the juicy filling"....float tubes don't travel fast.