No, it isn’t an episode of The Yogi Bear Show – this is for real! According to a story from the Associated Press,
Yellowstone’s grizzly bear population may be more aggressive towards humans due to the scarcity of whitebark pine nuts, their normal food supply. Two people have been mauled by grizzlies this year already, making it the deadliest summer on record.
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You may not believe it, but the debate over whether LED light technology is better than more traditional fluorescent bulbs is still a hot issue. Proponents of LED bulbs claim that the lights are more energy efficient, last longer and are more environmentally friendly. However, there are many that still think the higher up-front costs and relatively undeveloped technology of LEDs make them a less than optimum choice for the average home or business environment.
Before you decide on whether or not to choose LED tubes over fluorescent tubes, make sure you understand the pros and cons of both products. The following are a few categories you should consider when deciding on a bulb, and how both LED and fluorescent tubes measure up.
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The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife has made an interesting request of Oregon bowhunters: teeth.
Black-tailed deer teeth, to be precise. According to a press release earlier this week, ODFW biologists use teeth collected from hunters to determine the age of the deer, which can then be used for population modeling. The age of the deer is determined by analyzing the roots of the sample tooth, and is apparently quite accurate.
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With all the disheartening news surrounding the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, it’s good to hear some positivity on occasion. The National Park Service’s website recently published a story about a message in a bottle.
Sound tacky? Hardly. Apparently, one of the oil spill clean-up crews found letters written from the family of a British soldier who died in Afghanistan in 2009. Members of the crew were so touched by the letters that they wrote back to the family, sending photos of the group and a tee-shirt signed by all the crew members.
Here’s the story as told on the Adventure Guys’ Blog:
Oil cleanup workers clean up tar balls on Pensacola Beach, Fla., Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010. Tourism is starting to pick up along the Gulf Coast with the capping of the Deepwater Horizon wellhead. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
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If you think hiking Mount Rainier two or three times is impressive, you should meet George Dunn.
This July, 56-year-old George Dunn became the first person to climb Mount Rainier 500 times. You read correctly – five hundred times!
Dunn is a Mount Rainer hiking guide and director of Ashford’s International Mountain Guides. He completed the hike with his wife Nancy, his 16 year old son Jeremy, and his lifelong friend Phil Ershler, who has completed the summit 440 times himself.
“George is a consummate professional and a true gentleman,” climbing guide Gary Talcott said in the News Tribune Adventure Guys Blog. “He’s guided, mentored and inspired countless climbers, including some of the best, like Ed Viesturs.”
[Ed Viesturs is the only American to climb all of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks.]
Let’s stop for a moment and think about how much mountain climbing 500 successful summits is, exactly. Well, according to The Adventure Guys Blog, Dunn has covered approximately 9,000 miles and 4.5 million vertical feet. To put that into prospective, that’s a little over 852 vertical miles. That’s roughly one-tenth the width of the Earth. In other words, that’s a lot of hiking.
Dunn started climbing Mount Rainier while he was attending Renton High School in the late 60s. He started guiding hikes in 1975.
Not impressed? Well, grab your gear and LED flashlight and get hiking! Dunn’s 500-hike record is just waiting to be broken. Could that record-breaking hiker be you?
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