Off-Topic General Discussion - Page 5083

I went hiking on Mount Katahdin in Maine many years ago with my family and my uncle and aunt's family. We stopped overnight at Chimney Pond and in the morning 5 female moose ambled into camp. My aunt, my mother, a couple cousins and I stood around admiring them for a while. It was great.

Meanwhile one of my cousins, who wasn't more than 8 at the time, had gone to the outhouse just before the moose arrived. Unaware of the visitors, he came charging out of the outhouse (the trail for which ran directly into a moose). We desperately tried to signal to him to look out, but he was too busy watching his step as he ran to notice us.

He ended up directly in front of the moose before he realized something was amiss, stopped dead in his tracks, looked straight up into its face, and dropped his jaw in shock. The moose's eye bugged out in surprise and it fled into the woods.

My cousin didn't move til we ran over to him and made sure he was okay. It's now one of our treasured family camping stories. When my cousin finally settles down I'm going to tell his betrothed that she's lucky he wasn't killed by a moose.


To cap it off my uncle had climbed back down the mountain to spend the morning driving around the nearby lakes, looking for moose. His devastation when he came back to camp and found out what he'd missed was palpable.