I haven’t been in the field much this year, but thankfully, I have friends that are in the same business. And they too do stupid shit...and tell me about it.
Cougar Hunter spent the last few months as a desk jockey, then found himself in the field chasing bears. His week looked something like this:
Day 1: While following a signal for a radio-collared bear, he stabbed himself in the leg not once, not twice, but five times before he realized it was a needle in his pocket and not a thorny bush. Despite his ineptitude, he found the radio collar he was looking for. Unfortunately, it was no longer on a bear.
Day 2: He found another radio collar. This one was on a bear that was in a den! Too bad Cougar Hunter left his drugs and equipment in the truck. When he got back to the den, the bear was gone.
Day 3: Bear from day 2 outsmarted Cougar Hunter by crossing into private land. Land Cougar Hunter did not have permission to go onto, so Cougar Hunter followed a radio signal to another collar…that was no longer on a bear.
Day 4: Cougar Hunter was outsmarted, yet again, by the bear from day 2.
Day 4…a little later: Cougar Hunter went home to get ready to chase Cougars. Bears are way too smart for him;-)
