ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Sometimes you get the bear and sometimes the bear - shreds your raft.
Alaska State Troopers say several members of a bear-hunting party found themselves stranded early Wednesday near Klukwan in southeast Alaska after a sow bear with two cubs shredded their Zodiac inflatable raft.
None of the hunters was injured.
Troopers say the hunters walked upriver toward Klukwan and fired rifle shots to attract attention. A Klukwan resident took a canoe across the Chilkat River after hearing the shots and yells from the other side. The hunters were given a ride back across the river in the canoe and returned to their vehicles.
A friend of mine leaves his snowmachine parked at his rec cabin throughout the year and in the summer time his ATV sometimes joins it. Over the years of this unattended storage he has had many of the foam rubber seats chewed and clawed by bears.
What is it about foam rubber that they love so much?
Would have been content to leave him alone had he been content to accord me the same priviledge but he didn't so I bought a bear tag "just in case". Yes, I can laugh about it now but it wasn't funny back then.
People hunt bears, bear hunts people?
Metal boats are the way in Alaska, eh?