JOETHECROW
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What an outing... Penn Digger and I had been studying an old forgotten valley for a few years now...certain recent circumstances led us to come up with a plan to get up in there...You see, the only practical access was a spot where we NO WAY could park and leave a vehicle....so it had been back burnered for awhile while we dug other places... I was studying an old map and looking for other ways in...A very isolated place. Tom suggested a crazy but workable scheme...To haul one or both of our mountain bikes to a nearby "safe spot"...Then bike in. We adjusted this plan to where he dropped me off with our gear, then drove back to an "okay" spot, parked and bicycled about two miles to where I waited,...so far, so good...However, when we were driving to the drop off place, Tom says "what's that up ahead in the road?" at about the same time, we both said "BEAR"! There was a good sized black bear, sleeping right in the middle of the dirt road! [
] Tom tried to manuver to where I could get a pic, but by the time I got him in the view finder he was up, and ran up a steep embankment...Then we both realized Tom had to ride back through there on the bicycle in a few minutes...[8|] We didn't see the bear again till later in the day...
Here's our rather feeble bear defense system, still, was glad I threw it in the pack this morning..
] Tom tried to manuver to where I could get a pic, but by the time I got him in the view finder he was up, and ran up a steep embankment...Then we both realized Tom had to ride back through there on the bicycle in a few minutes...[8|] We didn't see the bear again till later in the day...Here's our rather feeble bear defense system, still, was glad I threw it in the pack this morning..
