Ok you guys.
I was backpacking in Big Sur along the California coast. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> I had been out for 10 days and was down to my packet of emergency instant mashed potatoes and instant gravy. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />I had killed a rattlesnake that day on its 3 rd strike and I had hiked/climbed/descended ten miles cross country down a dangerous steep upper "carmel River" canyon. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I was sitting by a campfire making some tea [made of local herbs] when a skinny tired looking kid comes along and wants to camp with me because people told him there were feral pigs in the area. Anyway he was too exhausted to eat, BUT
HE HAD A SKILLET, 2 AVOCADOES, A BLOCK OF CHEESE AND TORTILLAS. He was too tired to eat, so I ate ALL of his food and we hiked out the next day.

Oh - that night I was awakened to an animal crying right near me. In a flash I had my bowie knife and flashlight in hands. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />A silver fox <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />was standing 15 feet away in the light and watched me for a pregnant 5-30 seconds - who knows - time stood still. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Jim <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />