I used to live in Washington state, and I hear that they now have some griz's in the North Cascade's there. SWEET! That'll scare the eco-freak tree huggin' jerks out of the woods! Nature at its primal...it doen't get better than that.

Here in Colorado, we really don't have the nice big scarey bears I'd like to see. Just blackie's,

I will relate just a quick story. I ride off road motorcycles here in CO,(best place in the world for it too), some area's you can get 50+ miles in. One area round Granby stinks with moose and black bears. A problem we have there is spooking moose on the trail and running into them. They tend to not want to move off the trail. The ballistics of me hitting the moose on the bike favor the moose. Same with the bears there too. If you think you can out run one, let me tell you this.I chased one once that was running paralle to the trail in heavy brush for about 500 yrds. I was in third gear humping hard to keep up! He turned 90 degrees across the trail and disappeared. Chased a cougar and bobcat this way too. They won.

So if it comes down to you and him, my advice is to put a couple 12 bore holes in him.

jason