Funny!

My wife and I were hiking in Yellowstone a number of years ago and were quite far out in an area called Rescue Creek when we were met on the trail by a Ranger. Of course we had our walking sticks with little bells on them and were equipped with cans of bear spray. He asked us if we knew how to tell the difference between Grizzly bear skat and black bear scat. With a smile he told us if the scat had little bells in it it was Grizzly scat.
...and smelt like bear spray.
 
...and smelt like bear spray.
Our last trip to Yellowstone, I saw numerous people contending for the label 'Bear Food', 'Geyser Topping', 'Buffalo Horn Rack' and so forth. Never before did we see stupid actively at play several times a day.
I did notice that the bear spray on display at the outfitters just outside the southwest entrance contained on the warning label 'May enrage some bears'.
I recently recalled a comment I heard in college during a discussion on avoidable accidents from a phsyc professor.....'There's a fixed amount of common sense in the universe, and it's nearly used up'.
 
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