Home     Bookshelf     Bio     Shadow Soldiers     Photo Gallery     Contact     Links     Running Commentary/Blog

April 7, 2007

GUESS WHO’s awake?

blog-pics-2007.jpg

Saved by a momentary sound of silence ;) …  As the headphones plugged into my MP3 went quiet, shifting from the Pointer Sisters to Tina Turner, I heard a tell-tale crack in the brush up ahead. There was no mistaking the particular weight and resonance of that sound. I whipped off the headphones,  waited for a second, and he emerged, lumbering big and fat and black onto the trail. My first bear encounter of 2007.

Made me realize how many warning signs are drowned out by my running music. Had I kept going, I’d have been right onto the guy. It wasn’t the bear pictured above — the bruin I encountered was one of Whistler’s collared bears. The photo below shows Whistler local Lori Homstl tracking one of our collared friends through a residential neighborhood using radio telemetry.

I think I’ll be breaking out the bear bangers about now … and this is the reason we don’t hide Easter Eggs outside :)

lori-homstol-tracks-bears.jpg 

Photo -National Geographic

Posted by Loreth @ 3:29 pm | THE RUNNING LIFE, THE WRITING LIFE, Uncategorized  

2 Responses to “GUESS WHO’s awake?”



  1. Toni Anderson Says:

    Gosh, glad you didn’t run into him.

    I used to do what Lori is doing with fish LOL–and sometimes you’d find a bear who’d eaten the fish instead :) (Although I personally never got *that* close, ugh)


  2. Bailey Stewart Says:

    Yikes! I too am glad you didn’t run into him.

Leave a Reply


Running Commentary

Point of View


follow Loreth at http://twitter.com

THE SHADOW SOLDIERS

Blog Links


Categories

Archives

Search

Feeds

Meta

Click here to join LorethAnneWhite
Click to join LorethAnneWhite




Free Java Chat from Bravenet.com Free Java Chat from Bravenet.com
Home | Bookshelf | Bio | Shadow Soldiers | Photo Gallery | Contact | Links | Running Commentary/Blog