this is the story of a bear

sara (story of a girl) and i have been best friends for a really long time. i'm sure we could both tell you endless stories about our adventures together, but there is one story in particular that must be posted. it's the story about how sara was attacked by a bear while we were on a backpacking trip together. yes, you read that correctly.
those of you that read sara's blog regularly probably wouldn't peg her as the type to go backpacking. we won't get into how long it took to convince her that she would have a fabulous time backpacking and camping with all (think, think... how many of us WERE on that trip?) seven of us. she was a trooper and decided to believe us about how much fun backpacking is. never mind the fact that it had been snowing, and then the snow had melted and then it had iced over and then snowed on top of that.
the ice and snow kind of slowed us down a bit and also made the hiking a little more painful for the body (falling, rather than hiking, down steep inclines made for some nice bruises).
i'm not sure how long we had been hiking, but sara decided that she needed to sit down and take a break. only, she didn't really tell anyone and sat down on a fallen log out of sight from everyone else. she sat down and suddenly heard this noise right behind her that sounded like a bear growling at her! jumping out of her skin, she screamed something about a bear attacking her and ran toward the rest of the group. fearing an agressive bear, the men in the group ran back to investigate. after a thorough search, the discovery was made that the "bear" was actually some branches from a fallen tree that had scraped up against her backpack =) i gotta love sara, but i will never force her to go backpacking again!