The Last Bass Outpost

I’ve been told that as long as grizzleys have an escape route they will generally leave you alone , but many of the black bears had become garbage hounds and were unpredictable.
Also met a native woman who was a guide. A bear had attacked two German tourists one was badly mangled , she beat the bear off with a folding shovel , and carried him back to be looked after. She was about five foot two.
Bear paws are frightening looking things , one swipe would easily rip your face off.

That is such a fun idea, congrats!

She doesn't seem to be aggressive, just inquisitive, but with two cubs to protect that can of course change quickly. But as long as the human inhabitants stay on their side of the window, all seems to be well, give or take periodic re-purchases of pool floats obviously not designed to withstand brown bear claws and teeth.

I've seen black bears this oblivious to human civilization, but not brown bears (I've learned that a Grizzly is a brown bear sub-species, but Californian Grizzlies as another sub-species are extinct, so she and her cubs are brown bears, not Grizzlies).

If this happened in Germany in the few regions where we still have brown bears a state of national emergency would have already been called.  West Coast relaxation about things can be admirable sometimes.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/07/bears-house-pool-los-angeles-california

Goes to show that male gay couples are just more appreciative of the needs of a single mom with two children and no swimming pool!

This is a humanitarian gesture of immense proportions - you'll go to heaven for resurrecting that poor bass from what it has gone through!




PS: Scott, I'll never say a word about you sawing up that TBird once for a deeper cutaway again, your original sin cannot be forgotten, no, but it now has been dwarfed beyond relevance.