Robert Biggs, 69, was in the Bean Soup Flats near Whisky Flats and wanted to get back to Paradise. The California man was watching a family of bears and had decided to go home when he was attacked by a mountain lion. However, before the lion could kill him, the mother bear ripped the lion off of him and fought the lion until it ran off. The mother bear then went back to her cubs and left Biggs alone.
The most important aspect of this story is that, months before 2012 season, the Bears beat the Lions.
Once again the majestic Bears show their strength and transcendent power. A meat packer from Wisconsin did not save Biggs. It was a bear.
The other team in the news this week has a far less compelling tribute. When a convicted sex offender and child killer Jesse Joe Hernandez, 47, was about to be put to death this week, he was asked for any final words. Some such condemned men use these words to call for an end to the death penalty or ask forgiveness. Hernandez chose “Go Cowboys” as his final words before being executed.
Source: Paradise Post
Oro Lee 1, March 30, 2012 at 12:17 am
How can you tell it’s brown bear scat and not a grizzly’s?
The bells are seasoned with pepper spray..
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Your best bet is to grin and bare it.
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Amen.
Fatigue contributes to risk taking and to misstepping. If you don’t eat enough it gets worse.
Wootsy —
Thanks so much for the photograhs and the story of Bear 64 and her family.
I am always bemused by the amount of concern expressed by folks headed into wilderness areas over the danger of bears. As Dredd pointed out, some common sense and a few techniques will reduce the uncommon dangerous encounter with a bear into a very rare encounter.
A much more mundane and common threat awaits those off the beaten path — falling. Falls are the number one cause of injuries and deaths of visitors to the great outdoors.
http://blog.wildernessprints.com/2011/07/banff-grizzly-bears-take-another-hit.html
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I shook hands with VP Lyndon B. Johnson when he was walking the university in Salt Lake. Does that count too? Didn’t ask him what he was doing there. (Getting his Mormon assassins lined up?
It was my day off and was hunting girls. Speaking of hunting he had a grip like a beartrap, brown bear size.
How can you tell it’s brown bear scat and not a grizzly’s?
The bells are seasoned with pepper spray..
idealist707 1, March 29, 2012 at 5:50 pm
Sorry if my irony on sarahland etc irritates you. can’t help she used exotic alaska to have as a trademark. It’ll fade hopelully.
When i express sympathy, then it will sound differntly. This was irony over her sabotaging life for the alaskans. irony, as i know is difficult to gauge of course as to direction and genuality.
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If you care to associate Alaska with a Republican, use Walter Hickel.
I worked in his office when he was governor … hired personally on a handshake by his Secretary of State, Keith Miller.
Wally was fired by Nixon, after Nixon appointed him Secretary of Interior of The United States.
Wally always considered the firing by Nixon as his claim to fame.
BTW, any Texans reading this … don’t mess with Alaska, or we will divide it in half and then you will be the third largest state in the U.S.eh?
Sorry if my irony on sarahland etc irritates you. can’t help she used exotic alaska to have as a trademark. It’ll fade hopelully.
When i express sympathy, then it will sound differntly. This was irony over her sabotaging life for the alaskans. irony, as i know is difficult to gauge of course as to direction and genuality.
yeah, well I tell curious americans that stockholm is on the same lattitude as Anchorage (ca 60 degrees north). And yeah get the point about the distance from Alaska to Anchorage—never thought about that.
If you got the Kodiak, hope you had some hungry dogs and an a helicopter to pack the hide out. Must have covered the living room and dining room floors well
Respect for moose is essential, but when they are so tame they continue eating your apples on their hind legs as in my yard when I stand on the porch, then one might get careless. As it was in lappland they were 30 yards away when they broke cover crossing the trail.
Was walking the Padjelanta trail on a five day walk to the lapp summer camp at a beautiful lake. Ate lighlty salt-rimed fish filets they had caught.
In the old days their catch (unfileted) was flown out by pontoon airplanes daily. Flew back to save walking the same way. A circle route was avalable but we were staying in cabins and had not tent etc.
idealist707 1, March 29, 2012 at 4:28 pm
I thought Kodiak were named after Kodiak Island.
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Correct.
Hunting Kodiak bear (which I have done), even though they are the largest, is not as dangerous as hunting brownies or grizzles (at least in the places I mentioned).
When you hunt you take on the essence of a photographer. Sneaking up on a shit storm of potential problems. Your are likely to surprise the last bear you will ever see.
To the contrary, as a noisy, nature loving hiker that is very, very unlikely to happen.
I always carried ample supplies of “rogue bear vaccine” … of the most persuasive caliber … if you know what I mean.
My philosophy is “talk bear clearly”, but carry one or more big “thunder sticks” … for rogue and mavericky republican bears who tend to suffer from “lead poisoning.”
Most likely someone has injured, poisoned, or alienated them somehow, but I do not consider that my problem in those situations that do not allow much time for debate.
idealist707 1, March 29, 2012 at 4:25 pm
Dredd,
I meant that the bear would scent you, not vice versa
I got scared sh—-ss walking through the rare tight birch sapling grove on a trail in Lappland here in Sweden. Turned out to be a moose calf and its mother.
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A mother moose with a calf is far more dangerous than a grizzly, the smallest of the grizzly, brownie, and Kodiak trifecta.
“You have my sympathy being in Sarah land. Were you there when she was.
I presume you have another accent than she does.”
I don’t need your sympathy for that. Sweden is about the size of some Islands within Alaska. About the same latitude as well. Alaska was around before Sarah insanity, and before Sarah. She does not represent Alaska. There is a old saying “Alaska is not far from Anchorage”
(and the same goes for Wasilla IMO.)
“Myself, did not want to meet any bears. The hunters here get björnfrossa….bear shakes often when they see one, in spite of their rifles”
That is a function of fear, coming from the amygdala.
“So what motivated your interest? I mean it was not looking for camera bells.”
Interest? My practice is: wherever you go know what the fuck is going on there before you arrive. Or as W.C. Fields says” “The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.”
I thought Kodiak were named after Kodiak Island.
Dredd,
I meant that the bear would scent you, not vice versa
I got scared sh—-ss walking through the rare tight birch sapling grove on a trail in Lappland here in Sweden. Turned out to be a moose calf and its mother.
You have my sympathy being in Sarah land. Were you there when she was.
I presume you have another accent than she does.
Myself, did not want to meet any bears. The hunters here get björnfrossa….bear shakes often when they see one, in spite of their rifles
So what motivated your interest? I mean it was not looking for camera bells.
idealist707 1, March 29, 2012 at 3:37 pm
The main rule you had was to stink like a bear—just not like a fearful bear.
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If you get close enough to smell a bear, you are a dead photographer most often, with the little bell inside your camera inside a large pile of bear shit sometime after that.
Ask
Oro Leeorally , a real bare shit taster.idealist707 1, March 29, 2012 at 3:35 pm
Kodiaks. They are the ones Sarah wrestles with, particularly the ones who swim over from Russia.
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Kodiaks are at only one place on the face of the Earth.
Sarah, using the handle “Oro Lee” is orally not in that one place, nor anywhere really worth being.
I know, I lived in Wasilla, and where the largest bears live.