We settled down in whistler for a little while and picked up some fancy jobs. Ian has become an inspired and expert sandwich artist at a local specialty sandwich shop!
I (Ben) pursued an opportunity to become better acquainted with the intricacies of a finely prepared coffee!
We lived in a really smelly dirty hostel type place for the first 2 weeks, but it was really sketchy so we moved out pretty quick. Ian moved into the forest and found a nice little clearing outside whistler to camp, and I slept in my car a few nights but then decided to join Ian in the woods due to space restrictions, which lead to a very interesting experience this morning!
We were awoken by a big black bears nose sniffing the side of our tent! When he decided to venture on, we got ourselves out of the forest, but on the way we came across a different bear exploring the path. Once we safely got out to the road, we saw a third giant brown bear running around the same patch of forest! The whistler bear babysitters arrived shortly to try to get the bears away from the village, which also meant they would probably walk through the forest and find our quasi illegal sleeping arrangement, so we decided we should probably go back into the woods to take down our tent and get the heck outa there! We were pretty successful (and quick) about the whole packing process... we were so quick in fact, one of the black bears decided to hangout and watch us. He was very impressed! In the end, we got out safe and sound and un-arrested!
Just a note to our mothers (if you are not one of our mothers, do not read this section), this story is entirely made up and we would never take such a crazy risk as sleeping in the woods.
In a few weeks my family is coming out to visit/ cheer on my dad and his biking amigos who are racing in the BC bike race at the end of the month (www.bcbikerace.com). After that, We're shipping off to the Okanagan Valley to pick some cherries and live in a tent with a bunch of other pickers and tenters. Hopefully we get another update in before then!
2 comments:
Ok. So how many bears were there?
Good going, guys! You foiled BC's famous bears by keeping food out and laundry in your tent. Before you leave Whistler, I'd be grateful if you could scoop up a handful of sand from a stream or river and put it in a ziploc bag with a date, location, and collector's name for the Case of the Mystery Sand Adventure.
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