He did it at age 13 at a carnival.
Posted on 03/11/2023 6:44:05 AM PST by Third Person
WARNING: This story contains graphic descriptions of a grizzly bear attack.
A GOOD FRIEND never lets his buddy step in bear crap. So when Brady Lowry stumbled upon a fresh pile back in October, deep in the thick brush of the Wyoming wilderness near Yellowstone, he turned his head and began to alert Kendell Cummings. Those were almost his last words.
The two Northwest College wrestlers had known each other for only about a month and a half, but they had become fast friends. Brady, who'd been a juco All-American as a freshman, was back on the team after taking a year off from college. Kendell was a hardworking sophomore who hadn't cracked the lineup yet.
There's something about being wrestling practice partners that can forge lifelong friendships in six weeks. Pushing each other on 5-mile runs, sweating and bleeding all over the place, either twisting your friend into a pretzel or getting pretzeled... it's violence and then forgiveness, for hours on end, and that can weld two people together almost instantly. That's what it had done for Brady and Kendell.
So they started hanging out after practice. They both loved the outdoors, and as wrestling season started up in early October, Brady had talked to Kendell about how much money he makes doing "shed hunting." Shed hunting involves meticulously scouring the dense mountain trails near Yellowstone National Park, looking for horns that elk, moose, mule deer and other male animals lose once a year. A big set of antlers can be worth $200 or so. A good day of shed hunting can net a college kid $500, and today, Oct. 15, was off to a great start.
They'd gone out with two other Northwest College wrestlers, Gus Harrison and Orrin Jackson, and they spent the 45-minute drive teasing Gus
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If you are ever walking in the woods and you see bear scat, it means the bear has eaten.
6 hours ago.
In before the little-bells-and-smells-like-pepper joke.
He did it at age 13 at a carnival.
I’m a Realtor and was walking a 36 acre parcel with a guy and he saw I was packing a .357. He said “if that’s for bears, you can forget it. I haven’t seen a bear in this county in 35 years”. 10 minutes later I said, “what’s that”? A black bear about 100 yards. He ran off. The bear I mean.
I had to look that one up. That’s funny.
If there were one animal I’d like to see extinct, the Grizzly would be near the top. They simply have a crappy attitude on life, and this one had bad breath too.
Not as funny after it’s been posted a few thousand times.
I’ve never seen it before. However, my line was completely original on my part. For better or worse.
I knew an old guy who was hunting, he sat on an old dead log to smoke a cigarette and then he felt the log move. He slowly turned his head and it was a bear sitting on the other end of the log. He just sat there until the bear got up and walked away.
Actually, yours was not bad, and I hadn’t seen it before. The other is an OK joke in itself, but it’s been posted so many times on bear threads.
Finally, a well written article. At ESPN, no doubt. Worth the read!
“The 911 operator was advising them to not go back into the woods, that help was on the way,”
When SECONDS count, the police are only MINUTES away.
Wow, what a great story and a testament of true friendships.....
“Finally, a well written article. At ESPN, no doubt. Worth the read!”
Except no mention of what caliber gun the friend had.
Except no mention of what caliber guns they took with them on their return to the area.
The writer MUST BE an anti-gun lefty. How do you leave THOSE details out of your story?
One of the best written stories I’ve seen like this. Was tearing up multiple times.
“The two Northwest College wrestlers had known each other for only about a month and a half, but they had become fast friends.”
Which one was the faster of the two?
What a story! What a friendship!
Would make a good movie for sure
Tremendous attack, though the prolix writer carries out the story even longer.
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