Well, no offense, but if that gets your panties in a wad, I'd sure forget about any Alaska trips!

On my last trip up there we rounded a turn in a narrow creek with my buddy working the oars in 14 ft. raft and ran straight into a brown bear in the middle of the stream....... and I was sitting in the front of the raft..... HA!

In the words of Big Dale, "Ya' can't make this stuff up!"