Alaska 2013

[Rick]

Deja vu all over again. You two posted at exactly the same time and exactly the same thing. That right there is scary I don't care who you are.

[crashdive123]

That whole great minds thingie and all........wonder what our excuse is.

[1stimestar]

Now that's a room with a view.

Now that's a room with a view!

WOOT, Simulpost!

[1stimestar]

Care to make a comment on this headline in my local paper? The comments on the article are pretty fun to read.

Man uses assault rifle to kill charging bear near Anchorage


ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A trail south of Anchorage has been closed after a man killed a brown bear that charged him.

Department of Fish and Game wildlife biologist Jessy Coltrane tells the Anchorage Daily News (http://is.gd/DbGgti) that an unidentified man came across the bear Sunday morning while hiking alone. He told Coltrane the bear charged him, and he fired 13 rounds from an AK-74 assault rifle he was carrying on his hike.




Chugach State Park Ranger Tom Crockett said the bear ran off, but later died.

Officials say the bear was skinned and the head taken to Fish and Game. But a large portion of the carcass remains about 100 yards off the trail, and likely will attract other bears.

Rangers have closed the trail between McHugh Creek and the Rainbow trailhead.

http://www.newsminer.com/news/alaska...a4bcf6878.html

[crashdive123]

Some very funny comments.

[Old Professor]

1stimestar, I finally had the opportunity to watch several hours of the tv show "Life Below Zero" last night (I had just read all of the posts on your Alaske 2013 entry). You have some very interesting friends! I wish that I could come up and meet them, especially Susan! I admire any one who can surive a bear attack and go back to living in such an isolated location. Quite the poster woman for the Alaska Backwoods Woman! I wish that I had pursued my Dream of moving to Alaska after college. Cold never bothered me and I love the wild beauty of Alaska. Now I am too old and infirm to follow that dream but I salute those of you who have or will. Give Susan my best wishes and respect, please.

[thefemalesurvivalist]

Whoa! Never thought about hauling an AK-74 on a day hike. After 13 rounds the bear ran off....and died! I guess so. Guess things get pretty wild back in there.

[1stimestar]

Thanks. She is quite the woman for sure. We are trying to get me back up there this fall for some hunting. I can't wait.

[1stimestar]

Whoa! Never thought about hauling an AK-74 on a day hike. After 13 rounds the bear ran off....and died! I guess so. Guess things get pretty wild back in there.

Lol yea.


Here's an "only in Alaska" picture.

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[BornthatWay]

Does that mean a playground for bears or lunch served daily to bears?

[Winter]

Care to make a comment on this headline in my local paper? The comments on the article are pretty fun to read.



http://www.newsminer.com/news/alaska...a4bcf6878.html

I'm almost sure this guy used to be a member here and left to start his own forum. I joined his forum and was promptly banned when I questioned his military record.

[1stimestar]

I'm almost sure this guy used to be a member here and left to start his own forum. I joined his forum and was promptly banned when I questioned his military record.

They don't identify who it was Winter. Do you know who it was?

[1stimestar]

And in other news, it is now getting dark enough to see stars AND the northern lights! They were spotted last night about 2 am.

[thefemalesurvivalist]

Lol yea.


Here's an "only in Alaska" picture.

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A caution sign to watch out for teeter- totterers! I love it

[1stimestar]

A caution sign to watch out for teeter- totterers! I love it

Well you know, things can get a bit bumpy hahahha.


Here's what's happening on a Wed. night. My friend Kim came over and used my fiddle as a cello to try and figure out Ashokan Farewell. I think she did pretty darn good.

Well I can't get it to embed. Here's the link.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v...26755187397299

[1stimestar]

Took Olivia into Denali National Park for the first time this weekend. We stayed in a campground as I don't think she is old enough to go into the back country. Here are a few pictures from it.

We only got one glimpse of Denali as it got covered by clouds as we got closer.
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Mamma and spring cubs.

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The rest can be seen here:

https://www.facebook.com/georganne.h...6605696&type=1




Oh, that's the Swiss Army Knife I got from Phaedrus the Christmas before last.

[crashdive123]

Awesome pictures. Thanks.

[Rick]

Amazing country. I never ceases to astonish me.

[1stimestar]

Dang, I WAS going to take the kids camping in this area last weekend but we went into Denali instead.

White Mountains trail closed after grizzly accosts family

FAIRBANKS - A hiking trail in the White Mountains National Recreation Area north of Fairbanks has been closed after a big grizzly bear accosted a family picking berries along the trail last weekend.
The Bureau of Land Management temporarily closed the Table Top Mountain Trail off Nome Creek Road about 45 miles northeast of Fairbanks while it investigates the incident. The 3-mile loop trail is a popular hiking and berry-picking destination.
BLM spokesman Craig McCaa said the bear, described as a large grizzly, approached the family of four, which included two small children, several times as they were picking berries near their camp on Saturday night. The father fired several warning shots at the animal with a .44-caliber handgun to scare it away but the bear persisted with its aggressive behavior, McCaa said.
“They pulled camp and hustled down the trail and heard a crashing noise in the brush,” he said.
The bear then evidently charged the father, who put himself between the bear and his family, McCaa said. The man fired his last two shots at the bear but wasn’t sure if he hit it.
“It was quite dark at that point,” McCaa said.
According to a narrative written by BLM ranger Jonathan Priday, who interviewed the man, the bear “made an unnatural movement into some thick vegetation” after the father shot at it. Priday checked the trail on Sunday but found no sign of the bear, McCaa said.
Priday and the father returned to the area on Tuesday to see if they could find any sign of the bear and to determine if the bear was possibly wounded or killed.
The man reported the shooting to Alaska Wildlife Troopers as a defense of life and property shooting and plans to skin the bear if he finds it, as law requires, McCaa said.
BLM put up signs to alert hikers and berry pickers that the trail is closed because of the bear encounter, McCaa said.
It’s possible the bear is the same one that uprooted and pilfered a pair of bear-proof trash cans at the nearby Ophir Creek Campground back in June. Nobody ever saw that bear but tracks on the road indicated it was a large grizzly, McCaa said. The trail is about two miles from the campground.
“We don’t know if it’s the same bear or not,” he said. “There’s no way to tell, especially since nobody ever saw that bear.”

http://www.newsminer.com/news/local_...a4bcf6878.html

[Rick]

Approached the four several times? Seriously. Once would be way more than enough to figure out I has in HIS berry patch. Dang bear goes to eat some berries and gets shot for its troubles.