gloria p wrote:
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> On 8/21/2012 11:52 PM, Judy Haffner wrote:
> >
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> >
> > We have the dark blue/purple ones too, but this year's crop of red
> > huckleberries is really good. The berries are huge and the bushes are
> > bent over from the weight of the berries.
>
> I'd never heard of red huckleberries but Google confirms they exist.
>
> >
> > The bad part about me trying to pick berries around our house in the
> > woods, is keeping an eye out for the BEARS, as seems to be an abundance
> > of them this year,
>
> It's been a bad year everywhere and you are picking THEIR food that they
> need for hibernation. Hungry bears are troublesome bears.
>
> I take our dog with me so he can alert me, but then
> > not sure what I'd do, as not about to try and climb a tree at my age!
>
> Bears can climb trees better than humans. Be careful.

If you climb a tree to get away from a black bear, it will climb right up
after you and pluck you right out of that tree.

G.