Damn! Bears are quick.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

This guy was up where the arrow is from where the circle is in about 2 seconds. Which was 2 seconds faster than I could take off my glove, grab my camera and shoot.

So, when life gives you ice falls... shoot ice falls.



that is the second time that bunch of bears has escaped me right there. the first time I did not have a camera with me. I will be loathe to let it happen again.

[achtung_circus]

1. Sometimes they run away

sometimes they don't.

You need a partner, one you can outrun.
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Nice shots, though.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

2. Or one I can outrun who is quicker

with a camera?

[idgiehkt]

3. man, I knew this was NC right when I looked at the photo

where in NC were you when you took this? Where did you take the one of the icicles?

Nic pics. I've only seen a bear like that once, and I was in my car. I walked into the woods once where one had just been...you could smell, it and my dog wouldn't budge, I had to pull his leash really hard to get him to move. That was at the NC arboretum.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

4. Oddly enough, on Bearwallow Mountain

which if you have ever taken 74 to Chimney Rock, is the mountain on the right

[zanne]

11. I thought it was NH!

That scenery is very familiar to me (especially the granite). By the way, I love the bear and I love your woods.

[Arkansas Granny]

12. I thought it looked like Arkansas. We have areas (and bears)

that look very much like that.

[Catshrink]

5. Bears!

I thought you meant my Bears. Guess I'm just a little obsessed right now -- but IT'S BEEN 21 FREAKING YEARS!!!!!

[hickman]

6. I just finished Silence of the North by Olive Fredrickson.

Bears are smart and crazy. Good luck. If they turn on you, you're dead.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

7. Ah... yeah. So are humans

except for the smart part.

LOL

[jobycom]

8. The second time the BEARS have escaped YOU?

Don't worry, one of these days they won't run away. :rofl:

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

9. Well, escaped my telephoto lens

so to speak

[jobycom]

10. You are braver than me. I'd be more worried I'd get close-ups than

that I'd only get far off pictures of them.