jack, i will have you know, i have one 45 thousand dollar titanium good hip and one really bad gimp hip that makes me quite ornery sometimes................
"Riverbee would give that old grizzly bear a nose twisting that wouldn't soon be forgotten.".............
lazy, that's not a grizzly, that's a black bear, and yes they are sensitive on their noses, underbelly's and also their tongues when they bite a charged fence line..............
when i was a kid growing up in billings, mt. , my mom and dad would pile all us kids up in the station wagon during summer months and drive down to yellowstone, go fishing or sightseeing, camping. back then, when you drove through the park, the bears would line up and wait and we fed them out the windows. my mom still has polaroids of my dad hand feeding bears out the window of the vehicle. amazing.
i worked in yellowstone every summer since age 14 (old faithful inn) until i graduated from high school and maybe one more year after graduation; age requirement was 15, but my folks signed off, and there was no checking. they worked us 6 days a week, with one day off, but you could go anywhere in the park for free on the buses. i took advantage of that and traveled all over the park on my day off. i also volunteered for trail work and fireline work ( (when fires broke out), carrying a shovel and a pulaski and a heavy pack. the trail work was cool and so was the fire line work; and i enjoyed it more than i did working at the old faithful inn.
