Ok, I’ve just got time to fire off a quick and hopefully amusing post. Saturday I was running over the mountain trails from Horseshoe Bay to the Cleveland Dam through some thick mist and light rain. I was running downhill in the Hollyburn area when I ran across a tree stump on the trail ahead.
I thought it was odd as I didn’t remember a stump being there a week ago. However the mist has a way of playing tricks on the eye. As I got closer I thought again that something didn’t seem quite right. It was only when I got within 60 feet of the stump and noticed it had a ‘twitching tail’ that I realized I had run into a bear.
Now the bear was in the middle of the path, which in my books gives it the right of way! I stood there and looked at the bear. The bear stood there and looked at me. Nothing. I began shouting and flapping my arms in the air. Nothing. I kept shouting and banging rocks together. Nothing.
I was thinking that I was going to have to turn around and hike back the other way (3 more hours) so I dropped my rocks, which for some reason startled the bear. With a strength that was surprising to witness the bear bounded down the trail and off into the underbrush, crashing its way like a large furry wrecking ball!
Yikes!
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