Ahh...ALASKA ... ( but watch out ! )

Sasha and a girl friend had taken the dogs for a hike yesterday. After a nice hike they headed back to the Jeep. When they got with in about 100 feet of the vehicle they noticed something about the same distance away on the other side. There, in all its glory, stood a great, brown, grizzly bear.

Even from that distance the bear loomed above the roof of the jeep. Fear swept over the girls' which instantly turned to terror as they realized they were helpless. "Can we get to the jeep before that bear?" . . . "Can we keep the dogs from trying to chase that bear?" . . . "Will the jeep out run that bear?" . . . and so on, thoughts flooded their minds.

As the two girls looked at each other terror turned into panic. Simultaneously they began to scream and run for the jeep.
The two big dogs jumped right in the back and Sasha safely locked them in. However, Sasha's little chiuaua, Henry, was another story.






As Sasha desperately tried to catch her beloved pet, he dodged her attempts and stayed just out of her reach. Panic mounting, Sasha envisioned the bear closing in on them. She had the terrible realization that, if she couldn't catch Henry, she was going to have to leave him to the mercies of that bear. She knew she could not endanger the lives of her friend, herself and the other dogs. Just at that awful moment when she was about to give up she was able to grab him. With her heart in her throat Sasha threw herself and Henry into the jeep. With her girlfriend and the other dogs secured in the car, Sasha now put the petal to the metal. The girls were speechless. They knew they wouldn't be out of danger until they were out of the bear's reach. Grizzly bears can rip right through the roof of a car like a sharp can opener on a tin can. Hearts pounding, trying to catch their breath, the girls rounded the corner only to find another big brown mass looming on the side of the road. This was too much! Fearing the worst they again began screaming in terror.
Relief and hysterical, nervous laughter followed as they realized that it was not another dreaded grizzly bear but a musk ox, accompanied around the bend by his whole herd. They watched as the musk oxen ambled in the direction of the grizzly and wondered what was going to happen next. However, they did NOT wait around to find out.

(The pictures used in this story were not pictures of the actual event. They were taken on my trip to Alaska and were used for illustration only. Enjoy!)