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Overnight Open Thread: Out For A Hike With My Dad

by Adam L Silverman|  December 19, 201612:35 am| 24 Comments

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Just my Dad and I out for a hike in the woods…

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  1. 1.

    James E Powell

    December 19, 2016 at 12:38 am

    How is this a good thing?

  2. 2.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 19, 2016 at 12:40 am

    @James E Powell: Well we got plenty of exercise. Also, someone sent along snacks in this lovely glass encased gift box…

  3. 3.

    Larkspur

    December 19, 2016 at 12:43 am

    @Adam L Silverman: Crunchy on the outside, delicious chewy center.

  4. 4.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 19, 2016 at 12:48 am

    @Larkspur: nom, nom, nom…

  5. 5.

    opiejeanne

    December 19, 2016 at 12:49 am

    The bus and the woods remind me of Northwest Trek (a wildlife park in WA), but the drivers don’t feed the bears or any other animal. The passengers seem to all be Asian, so maybe this is a wildlife park in Taiwan or elsewhere in Asia. If it’s like the one in WA the animals are never around hikers or campers.

  6. 6.

    Mnemosyne

    December 19, 2016 at 1:00 am

    We finally watched Kingsman. It’s gory and violent, but it’s a darn entertaining spy movie.

  7. 7.

    Major Major Major Major

    December 19, 2016 at 1:02 am

    That’s hilarious.

    I made four dozen cookies! Yum! We’ll see what they think of them at work.

  8. 8.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 19, 2016 at 1:08 am

    @opiejeanne: @efgoldman:Its from this account:
    https://imgur.com/user/DefinitelyBears

    One of the commenters at the imgur page where I found it thinks its Northwest Trek.

  9. 9.

    Lyrebird

    December 19, 2016 at 1:15 am

    @James E Powell: Gah!! In NY State at least, I think they put down bears that get fed/get that comfortable around two-legged snacks I mean humans.

  10. 10.

    opiejeanne

    December 19, 2016 at 1:30 am

    @Adam L Silverman: It really looks like it; I’ve never even seen bears there, but I’ve only been twice and bears are not rare here.
    One time we had a moose come up to the bus and put her head inside one of the open windows. That was a bit more exciting than most of us cared for. The driver told the people nearest the window to keep calm and it would leave. I think he was more worried about the moose injuring itself if people started freaking out and scared it.
    There were elk, mountain goats that crossed the road right in front of the bus, buffalo. I don’t remember what else we saw. It was about 30 years ago.

  11. 11.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 19, 2016 at 1:31 am

    I’m fading fast.

    Probably had one too many tourists while out hiking this afternoon.//

  12. 12.

    opiejeanne

    December 19, 2016 at 1:34 am

    @efgoldman: Yeah, those black bears look so cute and they’ll kill you just like a grizzly would. Grizzlies are shy, black bears are not. We have bears around the cabin, black bears because in California we’ve made our state animal extinct.
    We also have had a bear around our house in Washington, four miles from the big Microsoft campus. The Wildlife people told everyone to just give it a wide berth, it was no big deal. I’m still astonished that they didn’t want to relocate it to a better place to find food. We don’t know what it was eating, maybe people’s fruit, apples and pears, and wild berries. This bear didn’t tip over trash cans while it roamed the area for 2 years.

  13. 13.

    Larkspur

    December 19, 2016 at 1:34 am

    @Adam L Silverman: Peasant dreams.

  14. 14.

    EBT

    December 19, 2016 at 1:37 am

    @opiejeanne: A friend in swannanoah NC would regularly get bears during winter. And I was up in Tahoe with my roommate watching her dad’s place a few years ago and a bear tried to pop open the bathroom window when I was in there.

  15. 15.

    RealityBites

    December 19, 2016 at 1:38 am

    I get bear problems nearly every summer. I put up a temporary electric fence to keep them a safe distance from the house/vehicles. They ripped out a car window once and that was one time too many.

  16. 16.

    opiejeanne

    December 19, 2016 at 1:55 am

    @EBT: AAAAAAHHHHH!!!!
    I’m very respectful of bears, knowing how dangerous they are. They terrify me.

  17. 17.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym

    December 19, 2016 at 4:05 am

    @opiejeanne: What about a bear . . . dressed as a clown?

  18. 18.

    sukabi

    December 19, 2016 at 5:31 am

    @Adam L Silverman: not NW Trek. Bears and wolves are not loose. Bison, elk and deer of various types as well as goats and sheep along tram ride.

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    Denali

    December 19, 2016 at 10:08 am

    This reminds me of a grim animal park in Hungary where you can feed honey to grizzly bears with a wooden spoon through a wire fence. It is deeply depressing and I won’t go there again.

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    opiejeanne

    December 19, 2016 at 12:33 pm

    @Tissue Thin Pseudonym: No! I don’t know how that would work, but no.

  21. 21.

    opiejeanne

    December 19, 2016 at 12:35 pm

    @sukabi: That’s why I’ve never seen bears there.

    I know why people think it’s NW Trek: the bus. Other places could have bought that exact bus too.

  22. 22.

    John Carter

    December 19, 2016 at 12:45 pm

    About those right wing, evangelical comments wanting some kind of evolutionary proof…

  23. 23.

    Jamey

    December 19, 2016 at 5:26 pm

    Man, this new “Renevant” sequel sucks!

  24. 24.

    the antibob

    December 19, 2016 at 8:31 pm

    Hate to be the grammar police, but it’s “my Dad and me”. Used to get this wrong, myself. Drop out all but the me and see how it sounds. “Just I out for a hike.” vs. “Just me out for a hike.”

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