Not too often that you can get a picture of the front side
of one of these in the great north woods
Watched this guy for about 10 mins . before he caught
wind and turned tail.
Not too often that you can get a picture of the front side
of one of these in the great north woods
Watched this guy for about 10 mins . before he caught
wind and turned tail.
WALK ON
I finally got to see my first Baxter bear last year near The Birches. He was a beautiful fella, but I only got to see him for about 15 seconds before he was gone.
Stumpknocker
Appalachian Trail is 35.9% complete.
I got 6 pictures of this Bear, here is another one as he/she comes closer
Watched it tear open a stump before this. These close encounters without being detected are pretty exciting!
WALK ON
Darn it! I had the perfect broadside of a large, relatively unconcerned male bear on the actual AT, broadside to the camera, paused and posing in front of a tree with a White Blaze on it! In the Shennies.
A lifetime shot.
Framed the perfect shot, the next ATC cover photo, took the shot... click - oh no! I didn't have my glasses on so I couldn't see camera function print, finally realized the camera card was full! Damn! Fumbled out another care...and dropped that! Oh no! Crap!
Retrieved card from dirt, pulled old card, jammed in another, the bear is just waiting there... framed another shot - thank you bear! you are very patient - click and oh no!
THAT card is full too, and needs to be reformatted. No glasses still, so squinting and holding the camera at arms length to find the function, cursing softly and continuously, the pressure is on now, meanwhile my friend takes a few beauties with his box camera....
Finally, I find the correct reformatting button and, with a mechanical whir, the camera starts erasing old photos... that takes awhile and meanwhile, Mr. Bear finally tires of the attention and moves off down the trail.
("Hey! Wait up!") I got a few desperate shots of his disappearing backside. LOL.
No animals were harmed in the filming of this comedy of errors.
;-)
Here's the money shot, and my account.
I got most of the details right, LOL:
http://www.trailjournals.com/entry.cfm?id=35607
I ran across a beautiful 10-point buck near Apple Orchard Mountain in Virginia a few years ago. He was about 30 feet from the trail, staring at me intently. I stopped and waited for 20 seconds and s-l-o-w-l-y tried to reach my camera, but he'd had enough. The locals in Daleville didn't believe that I had seen a 10-pointer!
GA←↕→ME: 1973 to 2014
I really like the fireworks on the end of that log!
PS: I was the 415,000th visitor to Jan's journal. What do I win?
Last edited by MOWGLI; 01-09-2007 at 16:26. Reason: added PS