BEAR STORIES
Collected and Compiled by Pete.


SKY ROBERTS' LIST OF THE TEN
MOST ASKED MAULING QUESTIONS

1)Q:How do you feel?
A:I feel fine but the bear feels better.

2)Q:Was the bear big?
A:In comparison, it was smaller than a service
station, but bigger than a tow truck.

3)Q:Weren't you really scared?
A:Not really....it was quite reassuring knowing that the bear
was ten times my size and there was nothing I could do.

4)Q:What were you thinking when the bear was chewing you up?
A:She was ripping my brand new Pendleton
hunting shirt and tore my lucky suspenders.

5)Q:Did the bear do much damage?
A:Other than ruining my shirt and suspenders, my backback
is full of holes and small items such as granola bars fall out.

6)Q:Were you in a lot of pain?
A:Actually it was a warm sensation
similar to being drag over cactus bushes.

7)Q:I'll bet that you never want to go through that again?
A:It was quite rewarding. I learned a lot from the experience
and I would recomend it to any outdoorsman.

8)Q:When you feel better are you going to go out and get the bear?
A:No, I have a system were the bear gets me.

9)Q:Are you afraid to go out in the woods again?
A:I get flash backs as soon as I step off the pavement. I'm considering
moving to detroit, where I can walk around without fear of being harmed.

10)Q:Will you ever get over this traumatic experience?
A:What experience?

TAKEN FROM MORE BEAR TALES BY LARRY KANIUT.

A PERSONAL MEETING BETWEEN ME AND OLD BLACKIE
I decided to title this a personal meeting between me and old blackie
because you could say that I had a very close meeting with this certain
black bear. It happened one day when I was working in the forest doing
some surveying when I heard something in the bushes off to my right. At
first I thought that it was my companions coming back from doing there
work but when I waited for them they did not seem to be getting closer all
that fast so I went to check on what they were doing. As I got closer
I got this terrible smell, like what wet and moldy wool smells like, and that
sent up a little flag in my mind. (See we were told that if we were ever to
incounter a bear we would probably smell it before we ever saw it). I stop
as soon as I got a wiff of that smell and decided that I did not want to
be there at that perticular time and decided to leave in the same way that I
got there but the bear had already gotten a wiff of me or something got his
attention because before I got four steps away he was comming to check
me out and he did not look all that impressed that I was there. When he
saw me he raised up on his two rear legs and just pawed the air a little
and was snorting. As soon as I saw him I stopped in my tracks as not to get
him mad and intise a charge but when that bear came down off his
hind legs and started to continue toward me I decided that I was leaving
and I was leaving in a hurry. At this time I forgot everything that I was
taught about bear incounters and the fact that you should leave slowly
while backing up so I turned and took off like a bat out of hell and jumped
up the nearest tree and climbed like I have never climbed before. When I
got up were I thought that I was out of the bears reach I stopped and
looked back to see were the bear was(thinking that I had got rid of it)
but to my surprise it had decided to come up the tree behind me. Lucky
for me there were quite a bit of branches on the tree that I choose and it
soon got tired of all the fuss that it had to go through to get at me. It did
make me climb a little higher in the tree though. It soon got tired of me
and left, but I think that it really did not intend to do me any harm or I
think that It would have tried harder. The thing that I learned from all this
though is that you should never run from a bear and second don't climb
a tree when it is a black bear that is following you because he can come
up right behind you if he so wishes.


Got any good bear stories?
Please email them toPete, and I will post them on the board.

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