Wildlife

[Brownski]

When I was a trail guide in AK somebody would ask on almost every ride if a horse could outrun a bear. It was an easy laugh to say “I don’t know but that one you’re on is slower than mine so I’m good.”

Also, “what’s the gun for?” I would say “muggers”

 

[Sbob]

 

[D.B. Cooper]

I finally saw a bear outside the state of NJ.

When I was in high school in Vermont we had a girl come up from NYC. One of the first things she said was, "there are cows up here!"
That was followed by head shakes and general bewilderment. City people are funny.

 

[Peter Minde]

When I was in high school in Vermont we had a girl come up from NYC. One of the first things she said was, "there are cows up here!"
That was followed by head shakes and general bewilderment. City people are funny.

I used to work with a guy who grew up in Bedford Stuyvestant. He thought Bergen County NJ was the country, when in reality that section of Bergen is nicely wooded and expensive suburbs. Did a road trip to VT; when he returned, he told me that they stopped at "an Indian trading post." He actually stopped at a general store.

 

[Peter Minde]

@D.B. Cooper on another note, I've occasionally roller skied and gone running at Garrett Mountain, a modest park next to Paterson. It's got the scrawniest, most underfed deer you could imagine. Yet the Paterson residents take pictures of them because they're the only deer they see.

 

[JTG]

Speaking of bears…..I’m pretty sure my boys never believed me when I told them a good size black bear walked past me while I was in the hot tub one night. Yeah, sure dad…chuckle, chuckle.

Well, now my wife has the video evidence!

 

[JTG]

This guy came walking toward me in the park down the road from my house today.

Seemed like a curious young’un, not threatening or aggressive at all. Heck, seemed like he would have come to me for some pets….but I got outta Dodge in case Mamma Bear was around!

 

[Ripitz]

This guy came walking toward me in the park down the road from my house today.
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Seemed like a curious young’un, not threatening or aggressive at all. Heck, seemed like he would have come to me for some pets….but I got outta Dodge in case Mamma Bear was around!

Was that in Bowdoin Park?

Betchya coulda wrestled that one.

 

[Brownski]

Were you fishing? He might of liked what he smelled and was coming over to check it out

 

[Campgottagopee]

Betchya coulda wrestled that one.

I'll take that bet!!!!
LoL