For the second time, I got to work before they texted me to stay home.

I don't wanna talk about it.

I don't wanna talk about it.

Exciting weather for the next 4-5 days!
Very unusual.

It's going to be a bit of a roller coaster for a while. Normal high is 72 this time of year.

perfect. just perfect.

And here he is showing everybody... this is his territory...

All true.  All standard textbook wisdom.   

If I hike a new area high up in the Rockies, I will wear not one but two canisters of pepper spray on my belt.   I would probably refuse to hike with greenhorns who own a poorly trained dog or appear ready to panic run at the first sight of a bear.

Wearing jingle bells or tin cans with pebbles or some other forms of constant noise makers are standard, traditional advice.  Which I ignore.

I prefer to be dead quiet in the bush/backcountry and.... this is really hard for many .... pay attention.   Both griz and blacks generally make a huge amount of noise if actively feeding. You can hear grizzlies working terrain from 400 to 500 metres away.   Signs (prints, scat, scratched trees, worked over rocks and tree stumps)  are usually highly visible, if one cares to actually look.

I will however make noise when traversing thick dense underbrush or negotiating noisy creeks.    I woof like a Grizzly.  And then sometimes I will hit my chest.    Territorial communication.    Not for everybody perhaps.