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July 11, 2007
Of Bears and Blogs
This morning I was thinking about my experiences at Philmont Scout Camp (yes, a long, long time ago).
We had settled in for camp and our team leader was up a tree trying to straighted out the rope for our bear bag when someone actually spotted a young bear in a hollow nearby.
We all scrambled for a better look, except for the team leader, who shouted "Don't leave me stuck up here with the bear coming!" (Ironically, he was in the safest place).
Quietly we passed the word among our group and others near by, carefully positioning ourselves for a better look at the 200-300 pound or so critter.
Suddenly, breaking the silence was a rush of feet, and a "A Bear! Hot D*mn, let's stone him!!!" A group of young lads from North Carolina rushed to get closer and in their haste made so much noise that the bear looked up and around, then casually shambled off into the woods and away from the campground.
The next morning, the North Carolina group awoke to find a bigger , older 600+ pound bear had located and took down their hanging food bag (Bears are smart), and shambled off into the woods to chow down on the yummier bits (Being packed with a lot of dehydrated food, I doubt Mr. Bear ate it all; but then I wouldn't put it past one to figure out how to cook it up).
Since we were on our last day or two of the trail, we loaned the noisy North Carolina boys some of our food and wend home.
Is the moral of this story "Don't shout too loud?" "Never threaten to stone a bear because he'll tell his peers?" Or "Anyone can write anything in a blog without having relevance to a topic you are really interested in?"
Posted by dmohney at July 11, 2007 11:10 AM