[pct-l] Anyone have bear or mountain lion stories?

[Reinhold Metzger]

> Say Fuzz,
> You sure it wasn't a moose?
> Bears usually walk rather quietly and don't make heavy stomping noises 
> wile walking.
> That is why you usually are not aware they are visiting until they 
> start messing with your food or gear.
>
> I have lots of bear stories I could tell but, perhaps they are best 
> told around a campfire with glowing eyes, in the dark, all around.
>
> Pattie,
> You seem to think that having a bear visit your camp site is going to 
> be sooo romantic and exiting  and you want to attract them to your 
> camp site for the experience.
> Pattie, as any Sierra veteran can tell you, a bear visiting your camp 
> site is not necesarily going to be a romantic and exiting 
> experience......it could be a real nightmare and I would strongly 
> encourage you to do any thing you can to avoid such encounters instead 
> of inviting bears to your camp site.
>
> JMT Reinhold
> A Sierra veteran with many bear stories to tell
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> Pattie wrote:
>> oo bad bad bad...u can make the critters sick that way...but maybe, 
>> since I haven't had a sighting yet, I can just leave the empty bag on 
>> the table...woohoo! thanx for the idea Fuzz hehehe
>>
>> patti
>>
>> --- On Wed, 2/25/09, Fuzz McPherson <fuzzmcpherson at yahoo.com 
>> <http://mailman.backcountry.net/mailman/listinfo/pct-l>> wrote:
>>
>> From: Fuzz McPherson <fuzzmcpherson at yahoo.com 
>> <http://mailman.backcountry.net/mailman/listinfo/pct-l>>
>> Subject: [pct-l] anyone have bear or mountain lion stories?
>> To: pct-l at backcountry.net 
>> <http://mailman.backcountry.net/mailman/listinfo/pct-l>
>> Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 9:36 AM
>>
>> Does anyone have any bear or mountain lion stories?
>>
>> At a campground in the Coast Range between Portland and Tillamook, so 
>> not on the PCT, after having some beers and burgers, I went to sleep 
>> in the tent having left part of a bag of chips out on the picknick 
>> table.  I know, that's not very bright.  In the night I was woken up 
>> by heavy stepping sounds.  It sounded as if a really big heavy guy 
>> with workboots was plodding around the table and then off down the 
>> very short trail towards the river.  After a few minutes of listening 
>> further I didn't hear anything else so I went back to sleep.  In the 
>> morning I found the chip bag on the ground in the bushes near the 
>> trail to the river.
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