anybody got a good liquid detergent?

[bendover]

well chaps and chapettes, i am reporting from the beautiful canadian rockies, the amazing Mt Revelstoke National Park to be precise. yesterday my parents and i drove the winding 26km to the summit where there are a variety of trails. we did a 14km loop trail on the ridge, amazing views etc.

then i decided that i would run the 12km downhill back to the hostel, while moms and pops drove back. looking back this was a bit dumb and blase, heading out into the wilderness on my tod with no whistle, phone etc. just a camelbak. this was brought home to me 3 minutes down the track, when i turned a sharp corner to be confronted by a brown bear and cub. not a good situation. the cub ran straight at me followed by a growling, teeth bearing parent. jobby THE BED. the cub ran up a tree and the mother stopped about 10 metres away from me. i stood very still and looked at the ground before edging back around the corner i had come from. all the while the bear was growling at me.

one i had the bear out of site i started walking, then i bloody pegged it back to the car park... no cars there so i had to run down a different track back to the town.

needless to say my running shorts are filthy, hence the request for a good detergent reccomendation.

for those of you who have seen a brown bear angry in the wild you will know that i am very lucky to be alive at this moment.

any other near death experiences recently?

[Mr. Furness]

did it look really scary, like this?--

[brooner]

i need some good detergent now too, i've just wet myself laughing, mainly thanks to mr furness, though i'm sure it was no laughing matter for dover.

[DesignatedDriver]

this is probably what you need Dover:

[Rachel]

Run down hill as bears front legs are shorter and so they can't run fast downhill

[Nailest]

Sounds like you now feel a special affinity with our ursine cousins Ben.

[the duncan]

some people would pay a lot of money to see a wild bear, but guess thats a bit too close for comfort!

i met an elk with calf a few years back, and also bricked it, before they ran away very fast, i had a tree to hide behind, but elks can get pretty nasty if they want to. no big teeth though.

anyway, you are on holiday in Canada, i'm sat in an office in Aberdeen, your sympathy has just dissapeared!!

Take them on and win Ben.

[Joykok]

This is what the bear had to say...

http://www.abearstail.co.uk/message.php?msgid=65297081534211232777045

[DesignatedDriver]

fan - bloody - tastic.

think i will be sending my boss a few choice Bear Tails....


(yep. definitely need to sober up sometime soon, else i might find myself in the dole queue...)

plus i might be making a severe overuse of the .... at the end of my posts....

[samsonite]

he he. nice one dover.

i came face to face with a moose in norge when i was about 15. punched a control, turned back round to run out the same way and somehow the massive thing had sneaked up on me. i had literally run in, punched and run out, no stopping. no idea how it got there so quick without me noticing. to be honest i dont think i was in any danger as it just looked at me as if to say "aye?....what?" but i was young and taken by surprise.

so are these bears a regular occurence if you orienteer in canada?

[Kitch]

don't suppose you've seen a tiger or a shark while you are out ?

just it would be nice to have a first hand report on which was best.

I suppose one better thing with a shark is that you'be in the water plus the thrashing of legs as you desperately try to run away would act like a rinse cycle to clean your shorts.
At least for as long as you had legs that is.

[DesignatedDriver]

anybody else finding Sharks and tigers popping up in far too many conversations lately?

Don't get me wrong - i like the idea that if anybody asked for an essay of Shark facts, i could easily fill several pages with useless trivia, but when i start to dream about them, and get strangely aroused. i get concerned.

wonder who would win between a bear and a tiger? or a bear, bendover (complete with chocolate hostage in his shorts) and a tiger?

[Stodgetta]

Chocolate hostage...sounds like this is what he needs!

[Kitch]

ow,

now my ribs hurt

chocolate hostage - pure classic!

[Kitch]

Ben

did you get a picture ?