cheri never thought about submitting the story. maybe i should. woudn't that be great. but the ending should be "i had to survive for all the girls at TE!"

donnambr no deer here, but we do have caribou. even better, but definatly not as smart. they run twards the sound of a gun, not away.

lise i'm doing ok. thanks for asking. i've had to drive out that way a few times for work and i always look at the island to see if the land lord is home. and besides from my (almost) hypothermia incident today where i had to crawl into a gumby suite, life seems good. i'm going back out tomorrow to conquer the bering sea so that doesn't beat me either.

roadraven we weren't in the woods (no trees here, just tundra) but we did have slugs (3 inch 1 3/8 oz), they were in the bag. didn't expect to stand up and see a bear, no time to grab bags because he was headed right for us. just had bird shot on us at that point in time. usually when we are hiking in anywhere we have 3 slugs loaded and 2 more back up.

little tid bit (not to scare just to inform) black bears stalk their prey (including humans) so if ever attacked by a black bear fight like h*ll. grizzly bears don't stalk, so play dead.