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[Sysman]

Thats right. It's not just Oz where you can find an outback dunny. The difference here is the incentive to be quick....
A howling pack of wolves on the hunt, racing through the oolu about half a mile away

Reminds me of a documentary I saw about the remote places out there.

The outside bogs were "too far in winter, too close in summer".

[EternalOptimist]

The missus took this from the safety of the vehicle. A female, about the half the size of the big fellows above, may be the size of a great Dane. Anyways when I got out of the vehicle, (over to the left of shot) her nostrils flared extremely wild as she smelled me and she panicked and took off like a shot.

When I got back into the vehicle, the missus was gone and I saw her trotting down the highway, nostrils flareing..... note to self, change socks twice as often. every three days.

[EternalOptimist]

[EternalOptimist]

We did a bit of hiking, after checking that there were no grizzlies around. This was from the swift creek trail, Valemount. Caribou mountains form the backdrop

[EternalOptimist]

Thats right. It's not just Oz where you can find an outback dunny. The difference here is the incentive to be quick....
A howling pack of wolves on the hunt, racing through the oolu about half a mile away

[EternalOptimist]

The missus takes a better photo than do I. This is in the far north, next stop the North Pole

[EternalOptimist]

Unexpected interloper in the wifes shot of sunset behind the Golden gate bridge.

We did a 6 hour detour to get that shot, she didnt know about the bird till we got home to Manchester.
(I told her later that I heard a mad laughing from behind her right shoulder, in the bay, where the ghost of Stroud, the birdman, is said to haunt the island of Alcatraz...spooky eh..)
no i just made all that up

[EternalOptimist]

[EternalOptimist]

One for the Romantics.
We stopped at a place in Montana for petrol, its called Lovelock.

You can get a lock, put your message in, then chain it outside the county courthouse. It will lock your love together forever.

[EternalOptimist]

[EternalOptimist]

[EternalOptimist]

We found ourselves in some backwaters. This place was like the wild west, it hasnt changed much since the goldrush in 1898

[EternalOptimist]

It wasnt just old EO that had the adventures. I sat and got blethered in SanDiego, Mrs EO went on a shopping trip to the Horton Plaza Gaslight district, to get essentials for the journey.
She saw this guy being chased by the Texas Rangers, he escaped by climbing down the facade.
centre shot - look closely

[EternalOptimist]

A quick look at the stats for 2000s Black bear attacks on that page I cited indicates that the majority of those mauled or killed were female, infants or old men.

Thats right. the latest advice for Black bears is to attack them. try to nutsack them or smack them on the beak. They wont take on a full grown bloke, possibly because they cant afford an injury.
We never got anywhere close to that scenario

[TimberWolf]

no. I checked for grizzlies. The locals know for sure if there are grizzlers in the area. If there were grizzlers in the area, we didnt hike. Brown bears, we did.

I will post some more pics, taken by mrs EO

A quick look at the stats for 2000s Black bear attacks on that page I cited indicates that the majority of those mauled or killed were female, infants or old men.