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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ish who wrote (103074)	6/9/2005 1:28:47 AM
From: Naomi	Respond to of 225578

Well if I had been on that trip they would have had to have a two holer outhouse as I would not go out there alone, so someone would have had to watch out for the bears as I picked the berries and ate them, then go in with me to make sure there were too of us in there and someone heavier than I am so if it was a hungry bear he would surely pick on that person. I don't ever want to come into contact with a bear as I still don't know how to play dead well enough...and I have read that is one way to fool them so they will leave you alone after clawing you some and get along some place else. My BIL used to take hunters up into the Tetons to their camp and they had a shack they used for supplies and bears attacked their camp looking for food many times. They always took their horses and donkeys and started back down the mountain aways and he would track back up on foot to the camp to see when they were gone. You would never get me to go camping under those circumstances and he tried and wasn't successful, beautiful country or not. That was just too much work for me to get any benefit from it. If the hunters were lucky they had to butcher what they shot and haul it down the mountain on the donkeys ....always thought about those poor donkeys, even though they were taken up there for that purpose, I wouldn't want to see it. Those moose and elks are like giants to me and weigh a great deal. Saw one standing on the side of the road when we were coming back from a retreat there at night and he stood taller than the car and would not move at first...just stood and stared at our car. Not being used to such a sight, I watched as my BIL sat patiently until he turned and walked away. Being the scared one of the bunch I was afraid he would charge the car and make mincemeat of us all. Talk about needing an outhouse at that time and no going out into the bushes....no way. Decided I am definately not one to hunt anything bigger than I am. The only thing I might ever shoot would be a snake and hope I am a good distance from it. so I could run like H**l if I missed.