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Bigdog
Jul 03, 2015Explorer
Long ago in another time,mid 50's, my family was camped at Old Faithful campground, yes there was a cg there at one time and the folks next to us had several tents in the same site with a couple of tarps around them, no blue tarps but real canvass tarps. They thought they were safe and left food out on a table after dinner and a rather large grizzly decided that she wanted their food, but the campers didn't want to let her have it,so they pulled out their trusty weapons and let go with several rounds in the air. She then proceeded to run thru the canvass fence they had made and took it with her right thru our camp and got our tent on the way thru. She then crawled under a small travel trailer that had people in it and then stood up when someone poked her with a very long stick. Too show you how strong those bears are, she turned that sucker over when that happened.
Final score was bear won everything and got away. Two guys in the next camp were arrested for having firearms and discharging them in a Nat Park. The folks in the trailer got out before it burned up as they had their propane lites burning when it went over.
Funny thing happened the next day was watching a mother bear showing her two cubs how to get food by putting one paw on the pedal of the in ground garbage can and when the lid popped up, reached in with the other paw and scooped it out of the hole. They also had those concrete boxes for you to put your coolers in with the metal doors and they all were dented beyond closing. Good old days.
Final score was bear won everything and got away. Two guys in the next camp were arrested for having firearms and discharging them in a Nat Park. The folks in the trailer got out before it burned up as they had their propane lites burning when it went over.
Funny thing happened the next day was watching a mother bear showing her two cubs how to get food by putting one paw on the pedal of the in ground garbage can and when the lid popped up, reached in with the other paw and scooped it out of the hole. They also had those concrete boxes for you to put your coolers in with the metal doors and they all were dented beyond closing. Good old days.
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