Mason

Sounds about right. Yep, weird stuff.

Are you talking about the incident near Lake Louise, AK? I don't have the details, but I remember hearing of the incident when I lived...

Toyota Tacoma. A 2017 replaced the 2003 shown here. I also use a cab height topper for shorter trips.

Regarding hood tie downs, you can also tie a piece of nylon webbing (I just tie a loop--9/16" climbing webbing--REI e.g.) to the open...

I've used the Yakima 1A towers on fake raingutters (the Thules are cheaper, and solid (...

Cheap and indispensable: headnet. You can even get the milsurp ones for a couple of dollars.

I went with commercial hoists--cheaper and more convenient than doing it myself...

They use them throughout the Rockies for managing grizzly bears through aversive conditioning. They're pretty effective.

He's got a number of books out--I think Ravens in Winter is the first (1988 or so). Also "The Mind of the Raven". Good writer...

Now this is a cat, and white at that: Lemme at 'em

"Ravens in Winter", by Bernd Heinrich. What can I say, I'm an ex-wildlife biologist. And I love watching the magpies in the yard. For...

Ppine's story brought back a bad memory. My daughter, her boyfriend (now husband) and I were hiking in Colorado, and had to go over a...

Good luck on the Thlewiaza. We paddled a section of it going from Wollaston Lake to the Bay via the ThaAnne. It's a rocky SOB!

I've been charged by both black and grizzly, and I've evaluated such reports over my 20 years of human-bear conflict management as a...

Except for the brief section where the bear was running full speed towards one of the fellows, who yelled and ran. If that was a wide...