Gardening

We camped at Yellowstone during one of our cross country camping trips. There was a grizzly bear warning issued and the rangers did a presentation about precautions. It was not a restful night.

Very early the next morning my Dad decided to go on a walk-about. He climbed up the side of a steep hill to watch the sun rise, had a look around and then headed back down, holding on to what ever saplings he could to slow his descent. At one point there was nothing left to grab so he just steadied himself and ran down the slope. Towards the bottom there were some low bushes that he couldn't avoid so he jumped over them. He was a very athletic guy. Well, there were some campers in a pup tent on the other side of those bushes. He managed to barely miss the tent, heard them wake up in a VERY startled way, and he just kept running. Afterwards he said they probably had a good story about their close encounter with a running grizzly bear.