Saturday, October 27, 2012

Big Black Bear… reveal yourself!


Do you recall that story we wrote about the bear 1/3 the size of our van digging its way into our compound?

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                                     He had help!

Actually, we cannot confirm nor deny that fact.  What we can confirm is that
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                                     this is not him.
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                                      Neither is this.
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                                      Nor this.
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                              Definitely, not a bear.
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                                      Too small.
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                                   sssssssssssss…  No.IMG_3888
                                     Naw.  Not him.
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                           Possible but still unconfirmed.
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Cute but too small for a bear.  Maybe we should just forget it and start looking at all of the beautiful scenery.IMG_3924
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                 M-I-C…        K-E-Y…       M…O…U…S…E
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                                       B…E…A…R…!!!!!
Yes, that really is a bear print.  Looks more like sasquatch to us.  Nicole wears a size 7, by the way.

We hit the trails for two days in the Polaris UTV (a.k.a. super bad golf cart like thingy).  In two days we covered about 70 miles.  At that rate, we are looking at about 100 miles per week.  Which means that by the time we leave we would have covered approximately 2000+ miles of trails.  Probably the most surprising part of the OHV trails here is that 90% of them are through some really dense fully shaded tree cover.  Today we had our ATV training.  We are now officially Forest Service Certified on the following:

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Oh… and about that bear.  The owner of the super big prints we found outside our campground has yet to show his face (not saying we’re upset about that).  But we did see our first black bear the other day.  As we rounded a curve he was just standing there in the trail staring at us.

Unfortunately, our camera was tucked safely away in the back of the vehicle.  Lesson learned on that one.  Sacrifice some road dust on the camera to get a shot of the bear!

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Yup.  It’s like that!  Hungry?