When A Bachelorette Party Tried The Amazon Rainforest

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  @Jody1752 · 1 day ago (edited)

  All of them hit home. While I’ve only experienced encounters in my beautiful state of Utah. Not far from the city.<br> Bear encounter on two different camping trips.<br> Both times, bears wandered &nbsp;miles from back country to a little camping area inbetween two small lakes.<br> While I didn’t use bear lockers for food. <br>Trusting my ex husband that we’re too close to the city.<br> Yet the lockers were there.<br> I saw them when we arrived.<br> We didn’t have any of food locked except in a cooler.<br> The camp site next to us, they had left <br>Melted ice cream boxes on their picnic tables.<br> No rangers reminded us to use the lockers, we’re guilty of that, we didn’t even consider it to bear<br> territory. <br>Sleeping in a tent no less, we hear a grown or grown, <br>And it was close.<br> Lucky we didn’t see it,<br>We heard it growl four more times.<br>At that point we were in the car and watching the rangers driving around the camp ground areas along the creek bed.<br> They did find the bear, and we saw it helicopter lifted out of the canyon.<br> I will never sleep in a tent or trailer camping in the mountains again.<br> While trusting that the chances we’d encounter a bear so close to home.<br> Made rethink every environment with an extra layer of awareness.<br>Protection and lots of safety awareness around whom I spend time in the wilderness.<br> I’m grateful nothing happened.<br> We never camped there again.<br> American fork Canyon, Utah has the most beautiful views lakes and mountains of quakes . Trees and bears .<br> I’d thought I’d never encounter once little alone twice.<br>The second time was just below the dam of Provo river.<br> Again growls and noice, bangs on trees, or a metal pipe.<br> And then rocks at our tent.<br> I believe that wasn’t a bear.<br> Be careful out doors,<br>Especially if you have spent a lifetime in areas.<br>No guarantee of safety.<br> I’m lucky to have lived,<br>But I can’t venture far from protecting myself from the wild outdoors.