Women can sure stay mad for a long time : It was the summer of 1976 and I was working for the Forest Service laying out timber sales . I drove our six passenger pickup up on to Sugar...

Coos Bay Tom Loc: coos bay oregon

It was the summer of 1976 and I was working for the Forest Service laying out timber sales . I drove our six passenger pickup up on to Sugar pine mountain with 3 college girls doing summer work. I walked ahead of them stapling boundary markers to trees along a f**gged boundary line . They were coming up behind me d**gging a long measuring tape called a chain and taking compass shots to line up on the boundary of the sale while the third girl was writing everything down in a book . I got ahead of them by almost anhour and I came up to a road I had to follow and post markers on . I kept noticing bear tracks . Along the way the bear started paralleling me and letting me know he was there with constant grunts as we walked along together. I could not see him through the thick brush but he was no further than 30 feet from me . After about half a mile I came to a junction and looked down the hill and our pickup was about 100 yards away so I decided to go eat lunch and wait for the girls . I waited way too long so I figured they must have met the bear . So I walked back up the hill and sure enough the girls were frozen with fear not wanting to come back to the pickup. We were done with the job and we needed to go but I could not persuade them to take a single step further. They were crying and going on and no matter what I told them about how the bear would not hurt them they would not budge. So I took my staple hammer and pulled out my pocket knife and went charging into the wood to scare the bear away. I got so close to that bear that I could feel his breath hitting me and he was going frantic grunting like an ape . I never did see him but I was right on top of him . Well I decided that was enough so I ran out of the woods hollering and the girls started screaming and hugging each other and I was laughing at them . They had peed themselves and were they furious with me. Well the bear was scared off and long gone. They took turns chewing me out all the way to the pickup and all the way back to the ranger station . They told my boss and he and I had a laugh . The rest of the week they kept bringing it up and complaining about how I could have gotten them k**led. Turns ot the lookout on Sugar Pine mountain was feeding the bear day old pastry's from town been painted yellow on the rearend and had been removed from Crater Lake park for being too friendly . Old Yellow tail still had those girls spooked and for half the summer they kept letting me know it. By the end of the summer they had calmed down and we even went fishing together . The next summer though the same girls plotted to get even with me .we used to get together and have purple jesus parties -- We took a milk can and filled it full of wine and whiskey and vodka and cut up fruit . They waited till i was buzzed and sitting and by the campfire . Meanwhile they had heated up a jar of honey and opened up the end of a feather pillow . Well they got me---laughed their heads off .

Marty 2020 Loc: Banana Republic of Kalifornia

Coos Bay Tom wrote:

It was the summer of 1976 and I was working for the Forest Service laying out timber sales . I drove our six passenger pickup up on to Sugar pine mountain with 3 college girls doing summer work. I walked ahead of them stapling boundary markers to trees along a f**gged boundary line . They were coming up behind me d**gging a long measuring tape called a chain and taking compass shots to line up on the boundary of the sale while the third girl was writing everything down in a book . I got ahead of them by almost anhour and I came up to a road I had to follow and post markers on . I kept noticing bear tracks . Along the way the bear started paralleling me and letting me know he was there with constant grunts as we walked along together. I could not see him through the thick brush but he was no further than 30 feet from me . After about half a mile I came to a junction and looked down the hill and our pickup was about 100 yards away so I decided to go eat lunch and wait for the girls . I waited way too long so I figured they must have met the bear . So I walked back up the hill and sure enough the girls were frozen with fear not wanting to come back to the pickup. We were done with the job and we needed to go but I could not persuade them to take a single step further. They were crying and going on and no matter what I told them about how the bear would not hurt them they would not budge. So I took my staple hammer and pulled out my pocket knife and went charging into the wood to scare the bear away. I got so close to that bear that I could feel his breath hitting me and he was going frantic grunting like an ape . I never did see him but I was right on top of him . Well I decided that was enough so I ran out of the woods hollering and the girls started screaming and hugging each other and I was laughing at them . They had peed themselves and were they furious with me. Well the bear was scared off and long gone. They took turns chewing me out all the way to the pickup and all the way back to the ranger station . They told my boss and he and I had a laugh . The rest of the week they kept bringing it up and complaining about how I could have gotten them k**led. Turns ot the lookout on Sugar Pine mountain was feeding the bear day old pastry's from town been painted yellow on the rearend and had been removed from Crater Lake park for being too friendly . Old Yellow tail still had those girls spooked and for half the summer they kept letting me know it. By the end of the summer they had calmed down and we even went fishing together . The next summer though the same girls plotted to get even with me .we used to get together and have purple jesus parties -- We took a milk can and filled it full of wine and whiskey and vodka and cut up fruit . They waited till i was buzzed and sitting and by the campfire . Meanwhile they had heated up a jar of honey and opened up the end of a feather pillow . Well they got me---laughed their heads off .

It was the summer of 1976 and I was working for th... (show quote)

I suppose you ended up with one of them as your wife?

Coos Bay Tom Loc: coos bay oregon

Marty 2020 wrote:

I suppose you ended up with one of them as your wife?

Nope but I did marry the bosses daughter and we are still married .

RascalRiley Loc: Somewhere south of Detroit

Coos Bay Tom wrote:

It was the summer of 1976 and I was working for the Forest Service laying out timber sales . I drove our six passenger pickup up on to Sugar pine mountain with 3 college girls doing summer work. I walked ahead of them stapling boundary markers to trees along a f**gged boundary line . They were coming up behind me d**gging a long measuring tape called a chain and taking compass shots to line up on the boundary of the sale while the third girl was writing everything down in a book . I got ahead of them by almost anhour and I came up to a road I had to follow and post markers on . I kept noticing bear tracks . Along the way the bear started paralleling me and letting me know he was there with constant grunts as we walked along together. I could not see him through the thick brush but he was no further than 30 feet from me . After about half a mile I came to a junction and looked down the hill and our pickup was about 100 yards away so I decided to go eat lunch and wait for the girls . I waited way too long so I figured they must have met the bear . So I walked back up the hill and sure enough the girls were frozen with fear not wanting to come back to the pickup. We were done with the job and we needed to go but I could not persuade them to take a single step further. They were crying and going on and no matter what I told them about how the bear would not hurt them they would not budge. So I took my staple hammer and pulled out my pocket knife and went charging into the wood to scare the bear away. I got so close to that bear that I could feel his breath hitting me and he was going frantic grunting like an ape . I never did see him but I was right on top of him . Well I decided that was enough so I ran out of the woods hollering and the girls started screaming and hugging each other and I was laughing at them . They had peed themselves and were they furious with me. Well the bear was scared off and long gone. They took turns chewing me out all the way to the pickup and all the way back to the ranger station . They told my boss and he and I had a laugh . The rest of the week they kept bringing it up and complaining about how I could have gotten them k**led. Turns ot the lookout on Sugar Pine mountain was feeding the bear day old pastry's from town been painted yellow on the rearend and had been removed from Crater Lake park for being too friendly . Old Yellow tail still had those girls spooked and for half the summer they kept letting me know it. By the end of the summer they had calmed down and we even went fishing together . The next summer though the same girls plotted to get even with me .we used to get together and have purple jesus parties -- We took a milk can and filled it full of wine and whiskey and vodka and cut up fruit . They waited till i was buzzed and sitting and by the campfire . Meanwhile they had heated up a jar of honey and opened up the end of a feather pillow . Well they got me---laughed their heads off .

It was the summer of 1976 and I was working for th... (show quote)

Good story. I enjoy it.

Coos Bay Tom Loc: coos bay oregon

RascalRiley wrote:

Good story. I enjoy it.

I have good memories of working in the woods .