Well, you fight like you train.
Well, you fight like you train.
Probably should have taught them what to do when they encounter a mama grizzly and her cubs, Lesson 1.
first lesson in survival in Alaska, carry S&W 500
There were no Armed guards to kill that thing?
Palin’s fault.
“They had been trained to call bears, which they had done.”
“Over here, tasty tidbits.” Like that??? Too bad they didn’t teach them to sing that song that stupid guy, RIP, from Malibu was singing to them.
The ‘49ers would be rolling in their graves if they knew the kind of idiocy that takes place these days. They all carried guns, I’ll bet.
There should have been armed adults - they know meeting a bears with cubs is a possibility.
They should probably be charge extra for the addition survival training they received courtesy of mama grizzly.
Survival training in Alaska without weapons = fail
If they would show what grizzly and polar bears are really like, you wouldn’t have so many fools running around in the wilderness unarmed. The nature programs give the impression that these animals will not attack unless threatened. Not so, bears are the land version of an eating machine. They should show a polar bear ripping up an eating a seal or a grizzly bear gutting a deer with its claws.
Definitely a leftie environmentalist operation that created the "leave no trace" philosophy.
I wonder if that includes "in bear scat".
It's certain they were unarmed.
I that what the brochure meant by realistic training?
Is the bear a Catholic Mason Shriner Conservative with a mainifesto? Is he acting from Timothy Trumble’s diary?
I would not mind seeing a herd of lawyers descend on this one. Unforgiveable.
I won’t even go camping in the lower 56 without a gun.
Seems like some elements of this program are poorly thought out. With even my limited experience hiking in the lower 48 which is safer in most areas then Alaska, I would be watching young people like a hawk. There are too many things that can go wrong, I don’t even take friends on a 1/2 day hike in tame woods without examining all potential problems. The heck with bears, there are snakes, wild dogs, crazy people and lots of reasons to have at least a gun or several out in any serious wild area. Even black bears scare the crap out of me, so an area with really big grizzly bears would definitely see me packing. I am the type of nervous cautious person who hangs the food up in a tree away from the tent and keeps the weapon in the tent. My uncle never camped or hiked with a gun but I always thought he was lucky and he was very aware of things around him. If you take people out into the woods you are responsible for them and your average person can find really stupid things to do. I had some friends who got lost in a small 500 acre woods for hours. I fell down a ravine as a kid and could of died within sight of houses. Somebody dropped the ball on this.
I camped and rode horses once in the Smokies. The bears gave our horses fits when they came close. We strung our food between trees also.
My father, and a few of his friends caught a cub in the Smokey Mountains..they had it in several gunny sacks, going back to Knoxville in a car.
They rented a cabin prior to arrival in Knoxville..carried the cub inside..while they were discussing what to do with the cub..it was becoming more and more agitated, making noises and trying to get out of the sacks.
Eventually the cub escaped ..and began to tear up the cabin...not wanting to pay damages..the cabin was vacated leaving the cub to fend for itself.
My father told me to stay away from bears..I was around 8.