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Re: ALONE:Update!

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...bears are nothin to trifle with. Old Desmond set a new record for tapping out (didn't make it til dark on the first day) Last season they had a few others tap out pretty quick as well.

...I don't have a fear of bears or wolves, but them fricken cougars is scary.

...they don't allow it on ALONE but in the real world I think it might be a good idea to have a dog or a few dogs around. They can see, hear and smell better than human beings can and can make a decent alarm system. They can keep ya warm too. Not as warm as a fat chick, or two skinny chicks.

...a wise old man from Alaska advises me that the best way to tell the difference between brown bears and grizzlies is to climb a tree. If the bear climbs the tree and eats ya it is a brown bear. If he pushes the tree over and eats ya it is a grizzly.




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Liberals are like a "Slinky". Totally useless, but somehow ya can't help but smile when you see one tumble down a flight of stairs!


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Re: ALONE:Update!
By: Decomposed
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Fri, 20 May 16 9:42 AM
Msg. 00082 of 00575

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re: "Desmond saw a bear."

Desmond tapped out on DAY ONE. He knew he'd be staying on an island with one of the densest black-bear populations on Earth, so he got there, panicked and quit. "Wuss" is too kind of a word for such an idiot.

I've had quite a few encounters with black bears, and they're usually as afraid of people as people are of them. I've chased them out of my camps. I was once washing dishes in a stream alongside a meadow, and campers on the other side of the meadow chased a HUGE one out into the meadow where it came racing straight at and past me. That was a little scary. While backpacking, I spent 15 minutes walking down a narrow trail alongside a bear 30 feet away that was doing the same thing. Neither of us seemed too concerned so it wasn't a big deal. On another trip, some girls in our group had the side of their tent slit open while they were asleep. Some toothpaste and their camera were missing. I found the camera fifty feet away with a hole where the bear's tooth had pierced its casing. (Pretty cool,if you ask me.) And ONCE, I woke up to see the side of my tent, right next to my face, being pushed in as ***SOMETHING*** on the other side took a big, long, loud inhale. One guess what that was!

I'm probably foolishly UNAFRAID of bears. Black bears, I mean. Brown bears would scare the bejesus outa me. If there were grizzlies on that island, I wouldn't go. But there aren't. 


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