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Old 06-12-11 | 10:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Bekologist
everytime i have ridden up on a bear i have surprised the bear. it's pretty surprising to you as a rider, but the whooping and hollering sets in and with any luck, the bear moves out of the way.

......Nothing like coming down around a blind corner of a forest service road to find a bear's hind quarters blocking the road and the rest of the bear stuffed in the huckleberries to put a scream in your lungs and a spin in your pedals!
Bears are mythical creatures! I put them in the same category as snipes. I've been moving around the forest for far longer than I want to admit and I've never seen one. I think the ones at zoos are built by Disney.

Everywhere I go, people around me say "Did you see the bear?!". I think it's just a huge camp prank I even had a whole trainload of people asking me excitedly about seeing the bear. I was taking pictures and there was no bear



Lots of bear poop...probably just a big dog... but no bear. Not a one! They don't exist. I'm not falling for the snipe hunt thing...again
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