BS: Alaska Quake - U guys OK?

Subject: RE: BS: Alaska Quake - U guys OK?
From: gnu
Date: 03 Sep 11 - 07:07 PM

I went out with a nursing student at uni... she was an animal! I DEFINTELY preferred her.

Sorry... just wishing I was young and, this time, smart again.

Me hat me coat eh.

Subject: RE: BS: Alaska Quake - U guys OK?
From: SINSULL
Date: 03 Sep 11 - 06:24 PM

So you talked the bear to tears,Bob. You have really left yourself open here. LOL
I prefer animals to most people too.
SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Alaska Quake - U guys OK?
From: Deckman
Date: 02 Sep 11 - 09:59 PM

Some years ago, back when I was an able backpacker in the Washington State Olympic Mountains, I lost a long time hiking partner. After probably doing 700 miles together, cutting the Olympics in half East to West, and North to south, she finally quit me because she figgured out that the black bear was my totem animal.

I can't dispute it ... because I've been on a first name basis with the little 300 pound black bears. They've never threatened me, nor I them. In fact I've enjoyed their company often.

The last event happened as we were heading out from the Encahnted Valley after a nine day hike. I came up a swail and came face to face, maybe 20', from this beautiful male, in full September glossy coat.

I stopped and started talking to him, but my partner wasn't paying attention and she walked right into my back. I said, quietly, "bear ... stand still."

She freaked and turned and ran. Her boyfriend was able to grab her pack and stop her. I walked toward the bear slowly, quietly talking while th other two tippy toed back down the trail.

After a while, the bear got bored and wandered off.

I prefer some bears to most people. CHEERS, bob(deckman)nelson

Subject: RE: BS: Alaska Quake - U guys OK?
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Sep 11 - 09:22 PM

Got some around here, too. I let them know I'm coming and I really don't want a confrontation any more than they do.

Subject: RE: BS: Alaska Quake - U guys OK?
From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Sep 11 - 07:20 PM

Neat!

Subject: RE: BS: Alaska Quake - U guys OK?
From: KT
Date: 02 Sep 11 - 07:08 PM

That was Ebbie, punched that bear, SINS! Oh no...Ebbie whacked hers with a broom! There are plenty of them around right now. I was walking home the other night when I came upon a cub hollerin' for its mama! Luckily, the sow was right around the corner waiting for it, and I was a respectable distance away. Reunited, they moseyed on up the hill. No boxing gloves required.

Subject: RE: BS: Alaska Quake - U guys OK?
From: gnu
Date: 02 Sep 11 - 02:59 PM

Just a day or so ago, a kid got lucky by punching a polar bear in the nose. He got mauled badly but he survived. His buddy wasn't so lucky. There were 7 or 8 kids I think. Scandinavia.

Subject: RE: BS: Alaska Quake - U guys OK?
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Sep 11 - 02:40 PM

Lady over in Kodiak shot a bear with a .22 Colt Woodsman pistol, back in the early '60s I think it was, to save her kid. Bear dropped dead on the spot, being hit in the eye. Like punching the bear, this is not a recommended thing but sometimes you get lucky.

Subject: RE: BS: Alaska Quake - U guys OK?
From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Sep 11 - 02:35 PM

Thanks Ebbie. I thought of you when I read the story about the woman who punched a bear in the face to save her dog. She was very lucky.

Subject: RE: BS: Alaska Quake - U guys OK?
From: gnu
Date: 02 Sep 11 - 01:38 PM

Glad it was "remote".

Ya know, the statement of not being aware of the many small quates minds me of being up Kent County way back in the bush. If ya sit quietly, ya can hear them, constantly, and sometimes feel them slightly.

Subject: RE: BS: Alaska Quake - U guys OK?
From: GUEST,Ebbieonborrowedmachine
Date: 02 Sep 11 - 11:45 AM

Thanks, Sins and maeve. Some of he Aleutians are more than a thousand miles from Juneau so we didn't feel anything. We normally experience one or two tremors a month, they say, but they are tiny and we are not usually aware of them.

Subject: RE: BS: Alaska Quake - U guys OK?
From: maeve
Date: 02 Sep 11 - 09:28 AM

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/09/02/7-1-quake-strikes-off-alaska/

Update here; tsunami warning cancelled.

Subject: BS: Alaska Quake - U guys OK?
From: SINSULL
Date: 02 Sep 11 - 08:43 AM

7.1 with a tsunami warning for the Aleutians. KT? Ebbie? Stay safe.