Rathwulven BC
Extremely Talkative
- Messages
- 236
- Points
- 470
- Age
- 36
Hi folks
I just had a talk with a fellow mountaineer of mine and we talked about crazy encounters with wildlife. I was wondering if you have stories to tell, too.
I wanna share one:
Maybe you are familiar with the infamous "vixen's scream" of the red fox. Compared to that of a lynx, the vixen's scream is nothing. So it came to be that one day a befriended hiker and me went off to the French Alps, close to Claviere. He is about two heads taller than me and used to brag a lot about his prior carreer as a muay thai fighter and how that made him - as he repeatedly stated, "a tough guy, you know". Let's call him "Bill" for matters of discretion.
So it came to be that we are at an altitude of some 2800m to 3000m - absolute silence, sleeping peacefully. All of a sudden Bill shakes me awake, completely zoned out. "Man! Man! Did you hear that! There is someone! Man wake up for %&/%§"(/& sake!"
Ripped out of my Zen, I heard a familiar sound echoing from somewhere at the edge of the valley. "F..k man, what the hell is going on?" Bill breathes heavily. "What the f... is this??? Is there someone dying or what? $!/"!"§!"!!!!"
Bill rips the tent zipper open, grabs his headlight, a medipack and his Opinel and slowly creeps towards the sound. "Hello?" HELLOOOO?!!" I have to laugh a little. "Jesus man, what is this???? I HAVE A KNIFE!" I burst out in lunatic laughter. "WHAT'S SO FUNNY YOU "!(&§$!("/$???????"
I let him walk for a minute and watched the spectacle. The face of him coming back, out of breath and repeatedly asking what the hell was going on here was just priceless. "I thought you were a cat person?", I asked. "What the f..k is that supposed to mean man????"
The rest is self-explanatory. I explained that what he heard were those fellas here:
What stories do you guys have to share?
I just had a talk with a fellow mountaineer of mine and we talked about crazy encounters with wildlife. I was wondering if you have stories to tell, too.
I wanna share one:
Maybe you are familiar with the infamous "vixen's scream" of the red fox. Compared to that of a lynx, the vixen's scream is nothing. So it came to be that one day a befriended hiker and me went off to the French Alps, close to Claviere. He is about two heads taller than me and used to brag a lot about his prior carreer as a muay thai fighter and how that made him - as he repeatedly stated, "a tough guy, you know". Let's call him "Bill" for matters of discretion.
So it came to be that we are at an altitude of some 2800m to 3000m - absolute silence, sleeping peacefully. All of a sudden Bill shakes me awake, completely zoned out. "Man! Man! Did you hear that! There is someone! Man wake up for %&/%§"(/& sake!"
Ripped out of my Zen, I heard a familiar sound echoing from somewhere at the edge of the valley. "F..k man, what the hell is going on?" Bill breathes heavily. "What the f... is this??? Is there someone dying or what? $!/"!"§!"!!!!"
Bill rips the tent zipper open, grabs his headlight, a medipack and his Opinel and slowly creeps towards the sound. "Hello?" HELLOOOO?!!" I have to laugh a little. "Jesus man, what is this???? I HAVE A KNIFE!" I burst out in lunatic laughter. "WHAT'S SO FUNNY YOU "!(&§$!("/$???????"
I let him walk for a minute and watched the spectacle. The face of him coming back, out of breath and repeatedly asking what the hell was going on here was just priceless. "I thought you were a cat person?", I asked. "What the f..k is that supposed to mean man????"
The rest is self-explanatory. I explained that what he heard were those fellas here:
What stories do you guys have to share?