[at-l] Hiking solo

[askowronek@mindspring.com (Amy)]

Gary Ticknor wrote:


> 
> All but one bear I've ever seen have run like hell as soon as they saw me.
> Admittedly, that one WAS in Shenandoah.
> 


I've had a bear in Shenandoah step onto the trail in front of me and
back me down the trail.  Big bully.  Just cause she's huge and strong
and cranky, she thinks she can tell me what to do.  Which in fact she
can, but it's still not very nice.


> 
> Which is just what happened to me one night near Jeremy's Run. Stupid Bambi tripped
> right over the guyline. Scared me to death. Spent five minutes cussing her out. 3:00
> AM, too.


The time the deer tripped over the tent was a couple of hours after
the aforementioned bear incident.  I took a nap after the bear left
because the adrenalin rush wore me out.  Woke up to a deer who sounded
a lot like a bear tripping over my tent.  :)  I poked my head out
to find that I had evidently set my tent up in a deer cafeteria.  They
were all over the place.  I had to shoo them away from the tent.

-amy in maryland