when we were up in British Columbia a few years back, there were articles in the local papers about an experienced hiker (he was handicapped in some way, but i can't remember how) who went out hiking alone and never came back. they had not found him by the time we left, so i guess SUMfin ate him.
while we were there, there were several sightings of mountain lions in the area.
lots a kool critters up north!
when we went hiking, we kept talking real loud so the bears would hear us and hopefully stay away.
I had some interesting times, too.
I worked for the Forest Service in Alaska, and I was also a logger, so I was out in the bush a lot.
I was charged by a bull moose two separate times, stalked by two Brownies in Denali, was almost run over by a snowy owl eating a rabbit that I flushed out of a snowbank, scaring the crap out of both of us, and I almost had a picnic on pack ice near Hope that broke up suddenly, but decided at the last minute to stay on shore, thus averting a fall into the breaking sea ice!
Yeah, I had fun up there!!
I miss it to this day...
Ed