ever SO helpful

[piranha]

well, we had seen some relatively fresh bear shit earlier, so it was probably a warning for "today".

walklog:

05-15 nanaimo river regional park 5.45 km 2:29, lying altimeter because that wasn't 571m of ascent/descent. wow, we have spiffy new signage in that (heretoforth undeveloped) park. i don't know what's up with those humongous entrance signs; they look just a wee bit ostentatious and i'd prefer to have that money spent on trail development.

anyway, it's a nice walk, though not a loop, but in summer one can make it a nice loop if one wades/swims across the river. lots of plants i tend to confuse, such as clasping twisted-stalk (streptopus amplexifolius) (which i always mistakenly think is solomon's seal), and the false solomon's seal (these common names DO NOT HELP) (maianthemum racemosum), and the star-flowered false one (maianthemum stellata). vanilla leaf (achlys triphylla) is blooming now. also saw something with big leaves that are headed towards becoming much much bigger, but it's not devil's club. maybe a gunnera. also saw a laburnum tree, but the racemes weren't in full bloom yet (that tree isn't native here, but hey, it's pretty -- also poisonous).

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[blur01.livejournal.com]

AUGH!

For nearly a 10 days I heard some form of "bear scat" every single day. I thought I'd finally broken the curse!

[flarenut.livejournal.com]

So what do they expect you to do about bear sightings? Anything different from when you know the bears are around but hiding?

We're going to have to take our birdfeeder in sometime not that long, but otherwise not so much.

[adina-atl.livejournal.com]

One time we were hiking in the Great Smokies and stopped to pick wild blueberries for pancakes the next morning. On the way back we noticed bear scat in the path--bear scat entirely filled with blueberry seeds--whereupon we realized that there were probably bears in the same blueberry patch we had been in. Good thing we made plenty of noise.

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

BEAR PATROL ETC ETC