The Great Outdoors

[ousdahl]

does anyone know when bears start hibernating?

like when they finally just chill for the winter.

November has been suddenly frigid. Does that first cold weather of the season put them to bed, or to one last good feeding frenzy?

[ousdahl]

Plus isn’t hibernation only relative?

like they’re not completely out cold. They might still get up to like take a leak or score a snack or kick your ass.

[ousdahl]

man, fuck bears!

[Deleted User 89]

Plus isn’t hibernation only relative?

like they’re not completely out cold. They might still get up to like take a leak or score a snack or kick your ass.

i don’t think that’s right

[ousdahl]

https://www.sltrib.com/news/nation-worl ... ican-wolf/

Endangered Mexican wolf escapes at Colorado wildlife center

[Deleted User 89]

did you say Mexican wolf?

sure it just wasn’t deported?

[ousdahl]

that wildlife center needs to build that goddamn wall!

[ousdahl]

Crisis in our national parks: How tourists are loving nature to death

https://www.denverpost.com/2018/11/21/n ... WYXfrHihEE

[Deleted User 89]

i’ve started avoiding the national parks and monuments in lieu of national forests or blm land

arches was almost unbearably crowded last time i was there

[ousdahl]

yeah me too.

although, there's a lot of truth to the fact the vast majority of park visitors never leave the road. Solitude still there if you're willing to wander.

but yeah, national forest and BLM offers comparable wild places with a fraction of the crowds. Wait, I mean, BLM sucks, keep going to the parks!

Perhaps most disappointing to me is how so many people will literally shit everywhere.

[Deleted User 89]

yup...lazy fucks

[pdub]

They wanted to raise the price of the parks by 100 to 200 percent.

I don’t think people should be priced out but it’s one solution.

Or maybe there are online applications where you reserve a spot and only so many non reserved entrees a day.

This year at Acadia was the busiest I’ve seen by far and that was a bummer.

[Deleted User 89]

Or maybe there are online applications where you reserve a spot and only so many non reserved entrees a day.

according to ousie’s link, this is already in place and working at the Muir Woods

[kubandalum]

If you’re a kayaker, you couldn’t do better than Misty Fjords National Monument in southeastern Alaska. It’s only accessible by water and air. I’m not a kayaker, but I spent most of a week there with a relative who owned and lived on a boat. It easily compares to Yosemite in beauty.

There are bears there, but I’m told the bears avoid people who make noise to let the bears know they’re in the vicinity. I’d didn’t see any. Did see salmon and bald eagles and seals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misty_Fio ... l_Monument

[Deleted User 89]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/28/americas ... index.html

[pdub]

A red tailed hawk got stuck in our bocce court at work today.
He was slamming back and forth into the windows.
He finally got out.

[ousdahl]

Whoa where do you work?

Joe Schmoes?

[pdub]

An aviary.
Dunno why we had windows installed.

[ousdahl]

Ice fishing season!

Also, remember where your water comes from.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BrRG8hqlO-9 ... 66b65uwaoo

[pdub]

I know this is older but I just stumbled on it again today.
Had to post.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0IQCLQDfKw