BlueBear
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Post by BlueBear on Jul 6, 2015 13:43:36 GMT -8
If you've never read the book "Blue Bear" by Lynn Schooler, I'd highly recommend it. Especially if you ever intend to travel at all into the SE Alaskan panhandle or thereabouts.
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Post by BlueBear on Jul 6, 2015 14:01:36 GMT -8
Not a polar bear, a black bear. Just white-phase, similar to the Kermode or "Spirit" Bears of NW British Columbia. There's a (much rarer and unprotected) strain in a certain isolated region of SE Alaska whose fur has a greyish tint that appears "blue" in certain light. It's still a black bear for all purposes, just a very pretty and rare one.
Those who've seen them (and whom have a head on their shoulders) don't speak much of it... as it's unprotected, there are more than a few big-game hunters who'd die to have such a rare fur on their walls.
If I ever saw one, y'all would never hear a thing about it.
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Post by BigLoad on Jul 6, 2015 17:34:10 GMT -8
If you've never read the book "Blue Bear" by Lynn Schooler, I'd highly recommend it. Especially if you ever intend to travel at all into the SE Alaskan panhandle or thereabouts. I agree.
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Post by BlueBear on Jul 6, 2015 17:57:56 GMT -8
Mike, you're the short one? And is that fuel or a keg tigger's pumping? I'm 5'9", but in that picture I'm definitely the short one. The rest of the team just happens to be 6' or so, lol. Tigger's draining the remaining contents of one fuel barrel (a damaged one) into another fuel barrel. We didn't use kegs, instead Tigger got us a promotion/donation from Pat's Backcountry Beverages and we made a bunch of those. :D That, and whiskey.
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Post by sarbar on Jul 6, 2015 20:54:33 GMT -8
Really, I never realized Blue was that height - then again...I'm short. Lol.....only a few of you are shorter than me!
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Post by hikinggods on Jul 6, 2015 21:05:32 GMT -8
[a href="http:// "]link[/a] Okay, one more try....
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Post by rebeccad on Jul 6, 2015 21:12:34 GMT -8
You look good, Hikinggods! But your companion is a bit stiff.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2015 21:16:55 GMT -8
Hikinggods, it appears that you are clicking the wrong button to post the photo. Click on the button that says "Insert Image," not the button that says "Link" or "Create Link." All your photos have leftover text like this:
[a href="http://..."]link[/a] That means that you are clicking on the wrong button.
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Post by cloudwalker on Jul 6, 2015 23:12:37 GMT -8
From this past hunting season.
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Post by ashepabst on Jul 7, 2015 6:38:32 GMT -8
here's me and baby girl on Max Patch last year.
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Post by cweston on Jul 7, 2015 6:48:23 GMT -8
From an unnamed pass between forks of the Black Creek drainage, Gore Range, Colorado.
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Post by ashepabst on Jul 7, 2015 6:53:12 GMT -8
me with a big ole tree:
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Post by echo on Jul 7, 2015 8:46:18 GMT -8
Backing up to the blue bear, spirit bear, good book conversation:
when I teach middle school, there is a strong lesson in taking responsibility, loving nature, connecting with your world, in a book called "touching Spirit Bear". Parts are violent, and parts are gruesome but it is by far my favorite book to teach when I have kids who are emotionally disturbed (actually the class title) and who need a reminder that the world is full of evil, but you can find, and choose to increase, beauty and goodness if you stop whining and get rid of your victim mindset. Plus if I'm reading out loud to a class, that is one book they never want me to stop, "please, one more chapter!"
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Post by red dog on Jul 7, 2015 11:19:30 GMT -8
What did you think of that stuff? I have mixed a couple at home to see if it worked. For most of my camping, the lack of really cold water will be a major detriment.
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Post by Hikin Mike on Jul 7, 2015 11:22:30 GMT -8
A larger version of my current avatar. Tuolumne Meadows June 2012...
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