![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For his readers this is high entertainment: close encounters of the pissed-off ursine kind. Of course, part of being human is making mistakes, and Doug, he’s made a few. ![]() He is a man to whom “bear bells” are an obscenity.Not surprisingly, he’s learned quite a bit about safe conduct around the animals and offers a store of advice on how to improve not only your chances of survival but also the chances you will see them without becoming an intrusion. For him, as for the Blackfeet tribe, the Grizzly has been the Medicine Bear. He’d winter in desert lands then head to the backcountry of Yellowstone and Glacier Parks on quests to feed his soul with the company of grizzlies at breathlessly close range. And you and he are psychologically askew unless you can avow, and mean it, that if you run into serious trouble you do not want to be rescued, preferring that your carcass provide feed to a community of bears.Doug Peacock, after serving in Vietnam as a Green Beret combat medic, returned to the U.S. You are not of his brethren unless you have raged against Man’s explosively intolerable treatment of animals or have had religion choked out of you by scenes of killed children. You are not like Doug Peacock unless you’ve unwrapped a grizzly skull from your spare wool sweater and placed it next you facing a fire. ![]()
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