Northern Trails And Tales

SPECIAL DISPATCH….Yesterday a grizzly bear was shot and wounded near a campground where we will SOON be staying and in the EXACT location we’re (or at least we were) planning to catch huge salmon.  The bear was  reportedly   plugged five times by a .44 handgun,  near the Russian River Ferry in Cooper Landing by an angler, who, with three friends, was taking a shortcut through some brush to a pool in the Kenai River.  Nothing and no one respects fishermen!… Authorities are skeptical about the five purported hits as the blood trail was fairly light.  Of course, this makes the bear doubly , or even tripley dangerous as he is now p-ssed off and possibly lurking near the campground awaiting our imminent arrival.  Grizzlies are notorious for their ability to survive physical injury.  They are reportedly worse than Al Quaida camels for their revengeful attitudes!….  For the record, though it won’t be tomorrow, we will be arriving at this particular campground  in ONLY  51 days!!! Let us hope the “authorities” are able to find this renegade faster than they’ve found— well, for instance, Osama….Krispy Kreme stock is sure to rise and I’m doubling up the 2×8’s  that frame my bed….  Bear with us….