Had any close calls?
when I was in my teens me and some friends went trout fishing on the oconaluftee river on the cherokee reservation. Hiked down a steep bank to a hole and there was momma black bear with some cubs eating blueberries. I froze. Not as a strategy but more in terror. One of my friends turned and ran. The bear then noticed him and ran right past me and chased him up the bank. He was able to get back in the truck in time. She started coming back down and we had nowhere to go except in the freezing water. So we got in and floated with the current downstream a bit. Shoulda seen the look on the fisherman’s faces downstream as we swam up to get out.
when I was in my teens me and some friends went trout fishing on the oconaluftee river on the cherokee reservation. Hiked down a steep bank to a hole and there was momma black bear with some cubs eating blueberries. I froze. Not as a strategy but more in terror. One of my friends turned and ran. The bear then noticed him and ran right past me and chased him up the bank. He was able to get back in the truck in time. She started coming back down and we had nowhere to go except in the freezing water. So we got in and floated with the current downstream a bit. Shoulda seen the look on the fisherman’s faces downstream as we swam up to get out.