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Fritz
Trad climber
Hagerman, ID
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Oct 12, 2010 - 11:12am PT
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Amazing. What's next? Grizzlies on ATV's?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Oct 12, 2010 - 11:17am PT
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Smart polite bears just place their order...
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wildone
climber
Troy, MT
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Oct 12, 2010 - 12:58pm PT
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Not my photo...
They also climb tanks!
Just a couple weeks ago, I had a polar bear right next to me and I didn't even know it! Very scary in retrospect. My buddy called me to the drillsite pad he was on because there was a polar bear within a couple hundred feet and they were watching it through a spotting scope and binocs. So I drove out there (about a 45 minute drive) and when I got there, it was totally dark (I work nights here in the arctic). So I hung out in their truck for a little and heard all about how awesome it was and how big it was, etc...
Then, security (whose jobs is to keep track of where the bears are and issue news of their movement over the radio for our safety) comes hauling ass onto the pad with his rooftop spotlight lighting up everything around us. He drives all the way around the pad, and then pulls up behind our truck, spotlighting us. My buddy jumps out and runs back to find out what's going on. Apparently, the bear had come right along the edge of our pad and we hadn't even seen him. Super scary.
He then told us all sorts of horror stories. He'd been a cop in Barrow for 10 years, and then security where I work for 20 years.
Also not my photo.
Some caribou. There are thousands in the summer.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Oct 12, 2010 - 01:12pm PT
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Wildone,
Yur too young to remember but BITD when the fight to stop the pipeline was
on the biologists were saying the caribou would be afraid to walk beneath it
so it would disrupt their migration. Pretty funny, huh? Tell us how ya
gotta shoo them out of the parking lot in the morning to get to your truck.
Oh, and on those 'hot' days, when it gets up to 75, where are all the 'bou,
standing under the pipe in the shade, right? They're not as dumb as biologists.
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wildone
climber
Troy, MT
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Oct 12, 2010 - 01:49pm PT
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It's true man. Them boo don't seem to care much about anything really. Barely notice you.
You'll know where I was when the polar bear walked by me, Reilly. Out by STP. I'm flying home in two days and won't be coming back here until next May. I can't wait to get out of here! I've been up here doing 84 hour weeks, for 11 out of the last 12 weeks. Did a 4 weeker, went home for a week, and I'm just concluding a 7 weeker. I'm ready for some sun and BEEEEEER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ambient out side of 5 degrees F, 25 mph winds on top of that. Happy times.
Performing radiography at height at CPF 2. Recognize it Reilly?
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corniss chopper
Mountain climber
san jose, ca
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Oct 12, 2010 - 03:21pm PT
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Pate -Yes it could be. But it doesn't matter to the polar bears. They'll
adapt just like humans will.
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wildone
climber
Troy, MT
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Oct 12, 2010 - 09:17pm PT
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To a degree, they'll adapt. They're already getting pushed pretty hard.
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