McCandless had narrowly survived one other of these personal test. Why he wanted to keep doing this is beyond reason. The sad part is that he could have easily survived by just knowing there was a cabin 6 miles upstream from the bus. There he would have found food and shelter. Or, by just finding a braided crossing in the river, he could have walked out. McCandless died because of his gross ignorance . . . not much of a grand adventure in my opinion.

I am sure Tim is looking down and is very please that so many morn and appreciate his work.

Tim Tredwell I never met you but I would have been proud to have..

You might also note there were rumors of illegal drugs while he was in Katmai. My source tells me that Treadwell wasn’t all he appeared to be at all.

did you hear any rumors about his inappropriate involvment with children?

yes, it appears dicaprio shelved the project. i heard the same thing about treadwell. i heard there is new information coming out involving illegal activities. very damning. there is also something about an affair with one of his supporters that will be revealed soon. how true this is i do not know.

Apparently, he’s doing well. He’s been back in surgery at least once. They say it will take several more surgeries to fix the damage.

Glad to see you’re back in the house again. I’m sure Jim Cole would find that song amusing. I haven’t heard much about how the guy is doing. But he’s anxious to get better so he can return to his passion, harassing bears with cameras shoved in their faces.
And yes I remember that song.

ALL DAY LONG PLAYING WITH ALL MY GRIZZLY FRIENDS,.. TRYING TO MAKE YOU BELIEVE I SHOULD BE HERE HERE…..
BUT WHEN THAT MORNING CAME AND THE BEAR DRUG ME OUT OF THE TENT,… HOW I WISHED TO GOD I DIDN’T CAMP HERE….

GRIZZLY COME BACK ANY KIND OF CAMPER COULD SEE THERE WAS SOMETHING THAT YOU DID’NT LIKE ABOUT ME……
GRIZZLY COME BACK, YOU CAN BLAME IT ALL ON ME…I WAS BLIND AND I JUST CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT YOU.

TKO…back in the house.

Guess who, it is so good too see your still here, i did check back a few times but there was no activity so it has been a long while since i posted. I just happened to think about Dexter and logged back on to this site thinking by chance i might find my Bear loving freinds and there you are. I have not heard hide nor hare as we say in Texas of Remmy maybe she will see our postings and come back to see us. I saw a good documentary on Discovery the other day about Yellowstone Park Bears and their continued unwanted intrusion to their fellow human park inhabitants…very sad they are starting to youthinize the Bears that get to close to people…got to go

As I watched the movie, it became clear to me that this man was disturbed. He ment well, I’m sure, but a person who claims to be interrested in animals of any kind, should know better. I do not judge him. I feel sorry for him, his motive may have been to escape something that nobody knows, but he paid the price, and his angered moments on camara and reminding us that ONLY he made it, giving info to children for free!! and if there is a God, bring rain?? I feel sorry for him, admire his extreme way of dealling with his problems, but he was a fool. And paid a terrible price.

Im from South Africa, even though I feel STRONGLY against poaching of lions, I cannot go and live amongst them, like other said, animals dont feel of think like us. There are other ways to protect animals. He wasn’t a bad person.. but he was wrong.

To his parents: Something was wrong with him, somebody hurt him, somewhere along his life, somebody hurt him or took something away. He was sad and angered. This was the way he delt with it…

And yes, poaching these animals are wrong..and in my language:

“Jy sal die prys betaal vir elke dier wat jy doodmaak, jy sal sien – aan elke persoon wat ‘n beer doodskiet vir plesier”

Daar kom altyd ‘n dag…

Then there is the problem of the animal moving. It’s more difficult to keep a moving animal in your view finder with a large lens on a tripod.

Then there is the problem of surface heat distorting the picture. You often see that on TV with videos shot from distance . . . it makes the shot waving due to the rising heat.

Then there is the problem of light . . . a small lens can function is less light, so early in the morning or late in the day a small lens is more functional.

Then there is the price. Large lens of any quality cost megabucks.

Of course, there is the problem of carrying and setting up a large lens in the back country.

And of course, in Coles case he just wanted to get close to bears to study them . . . or so the story goes.

http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/TimothyTreadwell_Paths/

As I understand it, using a camera with a telephoto lens produces a more grainy picture. The smaller the lens the better the quality of the picture. This is true of regular film. (How this works with digital equipment I don’t know.)

Cole’s goal was to document the lives of grizzlies in their natural habitat. He needed to get pictures of bears that had little or no contact with humans. So that explains his methods.

Of course none of this makes sense. It’s not like there isn’t an entire body of science on the lives of grizzlies. It’s not like there aren’t about eleventeen million bear pictures in the world. It’s not like Jim Cole was contributing anything. The truth is all of this was for Jim Cole, not for bears.

All of these people follow a different drummer. Each has their own reasons for what they believe. None of them make any sense. Treadwell believed that a new personal relationship between humans and bears could be established, one of mutual understanding and trust. Exactly what Jim Cole believes I don’t know, but he did tell a group of people at one of his lectures (sponsored by the Sierra Club) that bears view human differently than other animals view humans. As Vicky said, Cole didn’t elaborate, so exactly how far into all this New Age jive Cole is remains unclear. However, we do know Sabrina has one strange aura.