Off Grid Alaska

[shadow_operative2.0 16173]

 

 

[Hefeweizen 5416]

Moose is the hippo of North America, apparently.

[Judge Roybeanbag 11856]

1 hour ago, Hefeweizen said:

Moose is the hippo of North America, apparently.

Moose are not to be fucked with.   Not sure why people think they are gentle.

[Brisketexan 106607]

Moose are not to be fucked with.   Not sure why people think they are gentle.

They’re definitely not.
Moose out front shoulda told ya.

[Blotto 23974]

22 minutes ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

Moose are not to be fucked with.   Not sure why people think they are gentle.

because most people's depth of experience begins and ends with this guy

[BabaYaga 15532]

Anthropomorphic marketing has people confused that many wild animals won't end you.

• Moose
• "Teddy" bears
• and Bison.   How many Yellowstone tourists have to be flipped into the air by bison for people to realize that they are not to be messed with.  

[Gatorubet 30626]

3 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

Anthropomorphic marketing has people confused that many wild animals won't end you.

• Moose
• "Teddy" bears
• and Bison.   How many Yellowstone tourists have to be flipped into the air by bison for people to realize that they are not to be messed with.  

tree-fiddy?

[Pescado_Rojo 19553]

8 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

Anthropomorphic marketing has people confused that many wild animals won't end you.

• Moose
• "Teddy" bears
• and Bison.   How many Yellowstone tourists have to be flipped into the air by bison for people to realize that they are not to be messed with.  

There's a whole Instagram page of tourists getting fucked up by wild animals in Yellowstone. 

[Gladeite 376]

We have a home in Colorado.  Our area has many cats, bears and moose.   Only see cats running away or the evidence of a deer/elk kill.  Bears are pretty shy.  They tend to amble off when encountered in the yard or on the trail.  Moose are completely different.  They are completely unpredictable and so large that any encounter can go bad.  

[BabaYaga 15532]

15 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

There's a whole Instagram page of tourists getting fucked up by wild animals in Yellowstone. 

Oh, I know.  I giggle with glee with every post

[BabaYaga 15532]

I forget the IG thread, but there was one about police and postal feedback to daily encounters.  it's great

"tried to deliver package.  Bear in the driveway"

 

 

[thunderlounge 8316]

26 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

How many Yellowstone tourists have to be flipped into the air by bison for people to realize that they are not to be messed with.  

Until it is no longer funny. That may be a bit. 

[Gatorubet 30626]

1 hour ago, Gladeite said:

We have a home in Colorado.  Our area has many cats, bears and moose.   Only see cats running away or the evidence of a deer/elk kill.  Bears are pretty shy.  They tend to amble off when encountered in the yard or on the trail.  Moose are completely different.  They are completely unpredictable and so large that any encounter can go bad.  

Several decades ago I was at Yellowstone and I watched some moron rip up some long grass into a kind of bouquet and then walk up to an elk with the grass as if he was going to feed it.   The elk lowered his head and started stamping his hooves, and I thought the guy was dead.    I screamed.”STOP! That elk will kill you!!!”.   As the guy turned to look at me and dropped eye contact with the elk, the elk suddenly turned and trotted away.

The guy’s wife yelled at me for “ruining the picture.”
 

[BabaYaga 15532]

1 minute ago, Gatorubet said:

Several decades ago I was at Yellowstone and I watched some moron rip up some long grass into a kind of bouquet and then walk up to an elk with the grass as if he was going to feed it.   The elk lowered his head and started stamping his hooves, and I thought the guy was dead.    I screamed.”STOP! That elk will kill you!!!”.   As the guy turned to look at me and dropped eye contact with the elk, the elk suddenly turned and trotted away.

The guy’s wife yelled at me for “ruining the picture.”
 

Yeah, don't do that.

I worked after college at an exotic game ranch for a summer.  They had dozens of species and reinforced pipe fences and electric wire for the larger animals.  Under the fence there was a gap about two feet off the ground.  I found out why.  Guy was working in the elk pen and got charged.  Elk rolled him along the ground with his antlers.  Guy escaped under the fence but had to be airlifted to the hospital.  He was busted up pretty bad.  In the wild, he'd have been in trouble.  

If you've ever hunted elk, many of the bulls have serious injuries from sparring sessions with the boys.  Broken antlers under the skin, large scars, often serious infections and open wounds.  They're a horse we swords on their heads that like to fight.  

[Carl Spackler 3609]

6 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

Several decades ago I was at Yellowstone and I watched some moron rip up some long grass into a kind of bouquet and then walk up to an elk with the grass as if he was going to feed it.   The elk lowered his head and started stamping his hooves, and I thought the guy was dead.    I screamed.”STOP! That elk will kill you!!!”.   As the guy turned to look at me and dropped eye contact with the elk, the elk suddenly turned and trotted away.

The guy’s wife yelled at me for “ruining the picture.”
 

Kinda makes me wish that you had allowed Darwin's theory of natural selection to play out.  One less moron in the world to procreate, and the bitchy wife would have had a "nice picture" to remember him by.

https://www.instagram.com/touronsofyellowstone

 

[BabaYaga 15532]

28 minutes ago, Carl Spackler said:

Kinda makes me wish that you had allowed Darwin's theory of natural selection to play out.  One less moron in the world to procreate, and the bitchy wife would have had a "nice picture" to remember him by.

https://www.instagram.com/touronsofyellowstone

 

[RPM 26557]

Let them be "one" with nature.

[texashorne 1185]

1 hour ago, Gatorubet said:

Several decades ago I was at Yellowstone and I watched some moron rip up some long grass into a kind of bouquet and then walk up to an elk with the grass as if he was going to feed it.   The elk lowered his head and started stamping his hooves, and I thought the guy was dead.    I screamed.”STOP! That elk will kill you!!!”.   As the guy turned to look at me and dropped eye contact with the elk, the elk suddenly turned and trotted away.

The guy’s wife yelled at me for “ruining the picture.”
 

You also ruined the people getting fucked up at Yellowstone Instagram page

[Gatorubet 30626]

12 hours ago, texashorne said:

You also ruined the people getting fucked up at Yellowstone Instagram page

Wow! So time travel is a thing?

[hookem2010 2699]

Speaking of animals attacking...

Grizzly bear sprays itself (not Alaska)

[msucolt45 4213]

I hope that dude kept that can of “pierced bear spray,” as a souvenir that saved his life.

Hook’em!!!

[mooseoutfront 3646]

June 1.  The official beginning of tourist season. The shoulder season crowd, seasonal workers and early birders looking for cheaper travel deals, have been here for a month. 
 

The RV’s are starting to roll in so here’s  a game we play to soothe the local rage when getting behind one of them meandering at 30 mph down the highway or stopping in the middle of the road to gawk at a scraggly molting cow moose munching on leaves on the side of the highway…

Put Anal in front of whatever their trailer, fifth wheel, or drivable behemoth is named. 
 

My favorite so far this year…Anal Rustler. 

[tomahawk dunk 359]

Mooooooooooose, good to see you in your thread again! 

 

[Ten Bears 2499]

Anal Rustler III was the best of the series.

[ABSR 5357]

1 hour ago, Ten Bears said:

Anal Rustler III was the best of the series.

Good , but I thought it was a little derivative.   Now “Anal Rustlers 4:  Colostomy” took it in a whole other direction.

[Neonmoon 38130]

8 hours ago, ABSR said:

Good , but I thought it was a little derivative.   Now “Anal Rustlers 4:  Colostomy” took it in a whole other direction.

The book is way better 

[Braff Zacklin 13675]

If you ask me, both were shitty.

[mooseoutfront 3646]

[Scheiss Meister 8448]

Yep, that looks like it's worth hunkering down through the winter for.

[mooseoutfront 3646]

15 minutes ago, Scheiss Meister said:

Yep, that looks like it's worth hunkering down through the winter for.

Horseshoe Lake

Denali NP

[mooseoutfront 3646]

Anal Palomino 

[mooseoutfront 3646]

Seen more bears this year already than I saw the last two years combined. 

[tbone_ 14404]

Seen more bears this year already than I saw the last two years combined. 

Have you had to fight any of them?

[Updawg 2378]

He’s still posting

[Braff Zacklin 13675]

13 minutes ago, Updawg said:

He’s still posting

Maybe his name is Kevin.

[mooseoutfront 3646]

22 minutes ago, tbone_ said:

Have you had to fight any of them?

I almost cross posted the pic in the other thread 😂

[Gatorubet 30626]

23 minutes ago, tbone_ said:

Have you had to fight any of them?

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He had no time to use his bear spray before falling to the ground with fingers laced behind his neck and one finger holding the spray canister.

The bear bit him several times before biting into the can of pepper spray, which burst and drove the bears away

The man got to an area with cell phone coverage and called for help. A helicopter, then an ambulance evacuated him to a nearby hospital.

Investigators suspect from the man's description that the smaller bear he saw was an older cub belonging to the female grizzly that attacked. Mother bears aggressively defend their offspring and remain with them for two to three years after birth.

Park officials didn't release the victim's name. He was expected to make a full recovery.

I’m not sure if this is outdated info, but when I was in scouting and going to Bear country, the belief was that you could play dead with a black bear who suddenly attacked you, but playing dead with a grizzly would only give more time to bite you and eat you.

The only exception is when a black bear was slowly approaching you, because that was not protecting cubs or frightened - but pure predatory behavior to decrease the distance between you before the attack.

Ya’ll know the joke about IDing grizzly scat because it contains bells and smells like bear spray.   I think that is still true - and this guy lucked out with the can explosion.  

[Matuka 1320]

My understanding is you fight the blacks and cover your head and play dead with the browns/grizz.

But this reminds me of a time a few years ago sitting with a few friends at a bar in Dallas, swapping hunting/fishing tales.  One friend mentioned “fighting the blacks “ just as our server came over.  All of the sudden all of our eyes met and we quickly sputtered “We’re talking about bears!!”

[Updawg 2378]

Nm

[ConferenceRoom 6210]

2 hours ago, Matuka said:

My understanding is you fight the blacks and cover your head and play dead with the browns/grizz.

But this reminds me of a time a few years ago sitting with a few friends at a bar in Dallas, swapping hunting/fishing tales.  One friend mentioned “fighting the blacks “ just as our server came over.  All of the sudden all of our eyes met and we quickly sputtered “We’re talking about bears!!”

 

[BabaYaga 15532]

On 6/15/2024 at 5:21 PM, Matuka said:

My understanding is you fight the blacks and cover your head and play dead with the browns/grizz.

But this reminds me of a time a few years ago sitting with a few friends at a bar in Dallas, swapping hunting/fishing tales.  One friend mentioned “fighting the blacks “ just as our server came over.  All of the sudden all of our eyes met and we quickly sputtered “We’re talking about bears!!”

This is what I've heard.  If a black bear attacks, it wants to eat you ass first.  

[Schulz2.0 29241]

51 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

This is what I've heard.  If a black bear attacks, it wants to eat you ass first.  

[mooseoutfront 3646]

It’s Africa hot. Tarzan couldn’t take this kind of hot. 

[Chewbacca 7827]

On 5/22/2024 at 8:44 AM, Gladeite said:

We have a home in Colorado.  Our area has many cats, bears and moose.   Only see cats running away or the evidence of a deer/elk kill.  Bears are pretty shy.  They tend to amble off when encountered in the yard or on the trail.  Moose are completely different.  They are completely unpredictable and so large that any encounter can go bad.  

Yep.  We've had a couple neighbors lose dogs to moose over the past 2-3 years.  Really sad, but moose are not to be fucked with.

[Bevo 13817]

8 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

Yep.  We've had a couple neighbors lose dogs to moose over the past 2-3 years.  Really sad, but moose are not to be fucked with.

Little dogs? I would think something like a shorthair could outrun them. They were fine being chased by aggressive cattle.

[Chewbacca 7827]

6 minutes ago, Bevo said:

Little dogs? I would think something like a shorthair could outrun them. They were fine being chased by aggressive cattle.

I haven't heard all the details of the second one, but the first one was an old lab that just laid down when the moose came near (was a really sweet dog) and it stomped her to death.

[Carl Spackler 3609]

On 6/2/2024 at 8:18 PM, Braff Zacklin said:

If you ask me, both were shitty.

[shadow_operative2.0 16173]

Montana

 

[mooseoutfront 3646]

Wildfire about a mile from the entrance to Denali NP, right across the Nenana River from the tourist area. Apparently the tourists are freaking out on facebook. 
 

Sent to me yesterday, smoke jumpers landing and the fire which is right around Horseshoe Lake

[mooseoutfront 3646]

It’s been chilly here the last few mornings…low 40’s

One of the first signs of Fall are the high bush cranberries starting to ripen and it’s leaves turning red

Might be an early Winter