Bear Hunting

Day: 443

After a relatively standard cloudy Yosemite day with the family, picnicking and such, Matt and Niki headed home to Sacramento and the rest of us had a light dinner of soup and such.  Afterwards we were driving back to our campsite when I decided it would be a good idea to look for bears using my brand new, super bright, LED Maglite – out the window of the moving truck. Now, I know what you are thinking, and No, I wasn’t drinking, just having good clean animal searching fun.

This continued for the better part of 1/2 and hour and we even managed to see a couple of white coyotes, but no bears…  But then there was those red and blue lights that started flashing in the rearview mirror. The ranger came up and knew right what we were doing and shined the light in Aaron’s face and asked him how he liked it. “Well, the animals don’t like it either…”

He ran Mike’s drivers license (to be sure he is wanted by the law) then directed us to an area where we could park then look for bears on foot…

Wheres the fun if you’re not faster then the bears?  Geez…. rangers are a bummer.