One Story Grandpa Alan likes to tell us is the story of him seeing a Grizzly in Yellowstone. He says that it was trying to open someone else’s cooler. He tried scaring it away with noise. Little did he know that it was not a black bear, but a brown bear. The bear got on its hind legs, and began walking towards him. Immediately, the other family drove in a car, scaring away the bear.
Another story Grandpa has told us many times is the story about him hurting his shoulder. According to Grandpa, he was hiking and almost fell off a steep drop and thankfully stopped himself from falling, but in doing so, seriously hurt his shoulder. His shoulder on that arm doesn’t have the same function as his other arm, but as Grandpa would say, it beats the alternative!