2007 Swanking ideas

[MouseWife]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

I know. And people who play music in a campground are the people who spend the weekend getting glared at (as we did last year at King's Canyon when the next slot over played the same three CDs for three days).

But then I grew up with camping where there wasn't another person within 25 miles so car camping in crowded campgrounds isn't my ideal.

Well, I can't live without music but I won't blast it. But I have to have it.

I have camped/slept in places like that but I don't like it much. But, then again, sleeping so close to so many people with basically a shower curtain seperating us didn't bode well with me, either.

But I would feel safety in numbers...

[Not Afraid]

I always try to camp as close to a river as possible so a) I'm not surrounded and b) I get the whote noise of rushing water to drown out loudmouths.

[MouseWife]

Those {at HC} look like to be the perfect ones. It would be awesome to wake up with the river next to us and look up at would it be Half Dome or Yosemite Falls? Either way, awesome.

[Alex]

I once quite literally (in the CP approved sense of the word) saved a squirrel's life at Yosemite. I'm a local hero. I bet they still tell tales of my exploits.

[MouseWife]

Oh *eyes big with curiosity* do tell.

What about the bats, anyone see them? And, I've never seen one bear....

My son took practically a whole roll of film solely of squirrels.....

[mousepod]

On our last trip, Heather and I were hiking up to Glacier Point. I looked off the trail to my left (the mountain was to my right) and saw a bear, who looked right back at me. Heather was about 10 feet in front of me, so I just told her to keep walking, and when we were out of sight of the animal I told her what had happened. About 5 minutes later, we passed a couple who were hiking down the trail, and I told them about the bear. They had never seen one, and were so excited that they almost ran down the path. Stupid people. Once we got to the top, I asked a ranger about the bear (I was close enough to have read the tag in its ear). He told me that it was a female who had been a food thief in the past, but who seemed to be more out of sight this year since she had cubs. I was glad I didn't see the cubs.

I look forward to seeing many deer and coyote and squirrels in April.

[MouseWife]

Oh my gosh! I am glad I have never encountered a bear. Especially a female with cubs!!!!

I love to see deer {but they can be mean,too, if you aren't careful} and the coyote. They are getting quite bold, though, with people bribing them for pictures.

Aw, it seems we will miss each other. We normally go the end of March but schedules aren't permitting that.

Those times are still beautiful. Last March, we enjoyed lovely heavy snowfall. We hiked in it and it was awesome!

[Capt Jack]

our camp was raided by bears on one trip. who knew they were so adept at opening locked coolers, let alone car doors?

on any given camping trip I've seen bats, elk, deer, racoons, possums, snakes, more squirrles and rabbits than you could count, lizards, scorpians, hu-freakin-mungous spiders, whatever the 773H those freaky rat lookin' things were that attacked us, mountain lions, coyotes, a mole (by far the weirdest looking thing Ive ever seen) and some of the most incredible birds you could ever lay eyes on...its all part of the fun!

all you can do is try not to piss em off.

[MouseWife]

please tell me where you've met up with these creatures so I can avoid that place....

[Prudence]

I saw a bear right down by the visitor's center at Rainier. My boyfriend at the time wanted to go up and pet it. In retrospect, I should have encouraged him.