I saw my first wild wolf three years ago. One of my techs and I were driving down a meandering mountain highway with virtually no shoulder. We came around a corner and a mangy gray thing jumped in front of our truck then disappeared over the side of the road. It took me a second to process what I’d seen. The animal was so skinny and scraggly. I didn’t believe it was a wolf until my tech said, “Was that a wolf? It had on a radio collar.”
“I think it was,” I said, still uncertain.
So what did we do?
We parked the truck in the middle of the highway, got out and ran after it. We spotted it down the hill, moving slowly, stopping to look back at us every so often.
It was definitely a wolf and it was so COOL!
Now, most people probably think it’s stupid or even dangerous to run after a wolf, but wolves are NOT what the media makes them out to be. It’s WAY more stupid and dangerous to park a truck around a blind corner in the middle of a highway.
