Boy, this stuff gives me the creeps. I have to add that a woman I met last year at one of the folk festivals lost her daughter to a black bear attack. Her daughter was a professional runner, and apparently attracted the bear's attention while running down a forest trail. The bear bit her on the neck and killed her, then left the body where it lay.

This was a front page story that appeared in Canada's national newspapers last year.

I met the young woman's mother only a few days after the incident, and she was still in a pretty severe state of shock.

I do not wish to encounter any bears, and would sure not shoot a BB gun at one! But I bet Blind Drunk in Blind River would...given the chance.

It's interesting that they are reluctant to enter the water. So am I, but I would prefer it to entering the bear's mouth.

- LH

- LH