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A Black Bear just ran in front of me (and a friend on a Ducati)! I believe if either of us had hit the bear there would be no winners. (On the way home I passed a Moose, and a possum....quite a day)

--Larry

You got bears in them there woods ,sounds fun and scarey at the same time.

Geez we did a trip to NH 4 years ago, glad I didn't see any bears, although I did see a wild turkey walking on the side of the road, it was kind of funny to see.

thats funny i just noticed that your also from NH larry .......
maybe we can hook up for a ride i'm in concord nh

I'll wheelbarrowed a sheep once.
Thank goodness it wasn't a bear though!

Wow...that would potentially not be pretty!
if you hook up for a ride and head a little south let me know and I would join you

is that a grizzley bear ? insane seeing one of them on the road, normally they live in the wilderness

I've seen bears on the road, logging roads. They see the car and they scramble like the dickens to get away.

Very unusual to see a bear. So that's a keeper memory. In New Hampshire? I had no idea the state had wild areas.

I think if I almost hit a bear, I'd pass a moose and a possum as well as a big shit.
You yanks have to be tough! In Aus if you hit somthing it will either die or limp away and die. In America it will get a bit upset, rip you up and eat you. Sounds a bit more exciting in America!
By the way, is it true that if you get eaten by a grizzly bear that it will not eat your scrotum so it has somthing to keep its berrys in for hibernation in winter? I got yold that by a yank fom california. Bit of a worry.

It is funny how you get use to the things in your area. I deal with bears and many of the other wild critters as part of my job. I don't think twice about bears (other then to respect them), but the snakes, jelly fish, Crocs, etc. you guys have in Australia, now those get my attention!

As a teenager, I hunted for elk in the forests west of where I lived in western Washington state, USA. I had been moving very slow, very quietly up an elk trail in the forest, following fresh elk tracks. Often I would stop to look around for any elk. I crossed over a large wind fallen douglas fir tree. About as high as my shoulders laying over the elk trail. I glimpsed something move down below, where I had come from. An elk that I might be able to shoot? Some more movement of the ferns in the distance. I could not see what was making them move. The forests there are rain forests. Then, 'round the corner below ambles a big black bear coming toward me on the trail that I was on. I figured it had not seen me, but bears have a really really good sense of smell and it should have known it was following a human.

I raised my gun, standing about 4 feet behind the fallen tree, aimed at the bear. It kept waddling along toward me. I figured if it started to come over the log, then, I'd have to shoot it. A good angle too, shooting it from beneath it. No glancing bullet off the head.

Bear jumped up onto the log. I suppose I could have poked it in the nose with the end of my gun barrel. It was huge, with a white silver mark on its upper chest.

Without even looking at me the bear quickly turned right on the log and scrambled as fast as he could up the log and through the brush. I think I heard him crashing through the brush for a quarter mile.

A few years ago I was riding GA 136, "Burnt Mtn Rd" here in N Georgia, on my old SV650. It's a great mountain road near by with a long series of fast sweepers, and I was having a nice ride when I spotted movement ahead on the left. Thinking "dog", I immediately hit the binders, only to see a large black bear lumber out onto the tarmac! He (she?) stopped right there in the middle of the road on all fours, just as I got stopped about eight feet in front of him, and suddenly we were both sitting there looking at each other. I was desperately trying to jam my SV into 1st gear and decide whether to attempt a U-turn or risk goosing it and zipping around the bear, when he apparently grew tired of me and just continued to pad across the road. Whew!! I believe that was the only bear I've ever seen in broad daylight outside of a zoo. Of course, there was the time I nearly peed on one while on the Appalachian Trail one night...