Quote: (08-23-2015 03:01 PM)Sonsowey Wrote:
I watched a few of these, they're interesting. I saw the first season and people really weren't prepared for these wild animals.
I have no idea about bear and mountain lion attacks. Would they be likely to attack you while you're sleeping, as so many of these guys feared?
Obviously even if it's not "likely" you'd still be freaked out having bears pawing at your tent and wolves howling a few dozen yards from you.
Yes. Two surveyors from a competitor of ours were out on a job and a black bear came into one guy's tent, chomped down on his head and dragged him out into the woods and killed him.
Story I also remembered a story related to the question of...what if you were one of these guys and lived along in isolation for many years?
One forestry job i worked on, there was an old hermit that lived back in the woods on a lake with a dock with just him and his dog and a pickup truck. His nearest neighbor was 1.5 hours by logging road and the nearest town was 2 hours and had 800 people. He stopped to talk to us one day as we were working back in a logging block near his house. He heard our truck and wanted to ask us some questions.
He hadn't seen any people other than those at the grocery store in about 15 years until they opened up the logging site we were at and widened the trail towards his house so heavy equipment could get down it.
He asked us if we knew the crew of tree planters in the area. (Tree planters in Canada are college aged people 50% guys and girls). He said that the tree planting crew brought an old bus down to his lake dock the other day and asked if they could use it to go swimming....and they went skinny dipping. He said "I haven't seen a pussy in 30 years, let alone 30 at the same time! I had to get my oxygen tank and just sat right out there on my porch and watched. You guys see 'em, let them know they can come back any time"
It was amazing. This guy lived by himself in the woods for 30 years? Thats some kind of mental fortitude..also, I can't imagine seeing nothing but my dog, bears and moose for that long and then one day out of the blue have 30 naked, and in good shape, 20 year old women show up at my house to go swimming.
His eyes were so big talking to us, it was hilarious.