so this slogan is posted throughout tetons ... i personally think "be beary aware" would be a little more cheesier and catchier but i obviously don't work for the park service anymore and gave up the flat hat and green and grey a few years ago.
my lil sis and i had a delightful time in jackson and the tetons this weekend. pictures will come
soon. we learned there was a grizzly in our camping spot earlier in the morning as we were cooking our food... how convenient that info could have been if told earlier. we'll we didn't see one. the restless night's sleep was more of a sub conscience worry of the bear that was earlier in the amphitheater that we watched our elk night program. luckily jaimie and i had our orange glowsticks to thwart any bears to come even close to us. in singing our high school's fight song on the way back to camp in the dark and twirling our lil glow sticks, i'm sure any bear thought i'm not going to mess with them. maybe because bear doesn't like the taste of crazy people.
i, myself, said multiple prayers throughout the night but whatever the reason, we were safe.
and for the record... i learned that last year when a bear followed elba and i around surprise lake in the tetons (b/c we had our lunch in our hands), we did the CORRECT thing by not dropping our food or running. i read in the nps newspaper that we did everything right, so there mom. by watching yogi the bear was completely educational in my childhood.
