stubsadventures

Well, the first bear experience here wasn’t exactly what I had pictured but I suppose I’ll have to take it. I was in my room and I could hear it from in there. You could hear it breathing, clear as day. I had my canoe on the side of the house and it was filled with a bunch of stuff from the garage, so I wasn’t overly concerned with getting that unpacked right away. It was just sitting in the yard with a tarp over it. I could hear the bear trying to get the tarp off the canoe. From any of the windows, I couldn’t see it  unfortunately but I stood by the window and listened for a while. The next day, I was talking to the neighbour, who had seen it pulling on the tarp and she said it was a big black bear. Luckily, I didn’t have anything worthy of bear food in the canoe, so nothing was damaged.

The next day, a friend came out to check out the place, and we headed out for the first time in the Waiparous back 40 they call it. You can get there from my house, so it’s an ideal place to walk Caper. When we get to the trail head, there is a sign saying that there is a problem cougar in the area and fish and wildlife were attempting to remove it from the area. Needless to say, that’s the kind of hike you’re never really very comfortable on. “Problem cougar” never really sits well with me.

The house sits at about 4500ft about sea level, which means the snow is early to come, and long to stay. Yesterday we got the first snowfall of the season and not just a few flakes either. Almost time for snowboarding.

Stubs.