you should go for it.
I think I'd have to go hiking in Yellowstone. Apparently it's pretty much all sitting on top of the worlds largest supervolcano that hasn't gone off yet.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 19 Jul 2011, 11:52, 3 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

The thought makes me feel shaky haha

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 19 Jul 2011, 11:53, Reply)

what, yellowstone, or parachute jumping?

(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 19 Jul 2011, 11:54, Reply)

Parachute jumping

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 19 Jul 2011, 11:57, Reply)

The Yellowstone Caldera?
If that's the one I think it is, we're all fucked if it goes off.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 19 Jul 2011, 11:55, Reply)

there are probably lots of things that'll fuck us if they go off.
I'd put Chompy's balls up there for a start
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 19 Jul 2011, 11:57, Reply)

Yup, that one.
Would LOVE to go there, purely just to say I've been. But also to see like, bears and wolves and moose (Meese?). And maybe go swimming in one of the thermal pools.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 19 Jul 2011, 11:57, Reply)

Moose are just spindly oversized cows with oven gloves
Elk are where it's at, man.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 19 Jul 2011, 11:58, Reply)

but they have fuzzy antlers!

(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 19 Jul 2011, 12:00, Reply)

oven gloves.
and they are possibly the stupidest animals on the face of the earth, after Red Setters.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 19 Jul 2011, 12:01, Reply)

But stupid means they might let me go up to them and pat them?
Maybe I'm the stupid one...
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 19 Jul 2011, 12:03, Reply)

I think they'll run away. Would be cool, though.
They are also ... how to put this .. .fucking huge. They might be stupid and not agressive but you wouldn't want to get in the way of one.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 19 Jul 2011, 12:09, Reply)

bigger than a horse?

(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 19 Jul 2011, 12:18, Reply)

oh yeah.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 19 Jul 2011, 12:21, Reply)

wow.

(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 19 Jul 2011, 12:30, Reply)

but the bears, Poppet. THE BEARS.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 19 Jul 2011, 11:57, Reply)

part of the thrill isn't it?

(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 19 Jul 2011, 11:58, Reply)

I was hiking near Lake Louise in Canada a few years ago
with a couple of mates, and one of them, bless, was desperate to see a bear. We saw this brown thing start to appear over the brow of a hill, and he screamed "BEAAARRRR!" .. just as the red lead and the small girl walking the (admittedly, it was a Newfie, but still) brown dog also appeared. Embarrasment WIN.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 19 Jul 2011, 12:00, Reply)

haha I realise it's unlikely that I'll ever see one.
But I'd love to. Same as I'd like to see a hedgehog and a badger in england - I never got to see either while I was there.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 19 Jul 2011, 12:03, Reply)

I've never seen a live badger in the wild here
and I'm 35 and grew up in the middle of the countryside. So good luck with that ;)
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 19 Jul 2011, 12:07, Reply)

I got chased by one across a golf course
fucking terrifying.
( Kroney, Tue 19 Jul 2011, 12:10, Reply)

Noel knows where they live near his house.
When I go back, I'm gonna sit outside one until I see it.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 19 Jul 2011, 12:11, Reply)

Good luck
They're extremely reclusive, if they smell you they probably won't make an appearance.

Unless they're rabid, in which case it seems they're willing to chase you for hundreds of yards for an opportunity to rip out your throat.
( Kroney, Tue 19 Jul 2011, 12:14, Reply)

you'd probably called its missus a stripy slag
you bring these things on yourself, you know.

Also. Fucking candle and that.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 19 Jul 2011, 12:15, Reply)

Now that you mention it
I may have knocked its pint over.
( Kroney, Tue 19 Jul 2011, 12:17, Reply)

I've stood in a dead one
quite a vivid memory considering I was 8.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 19 Jul 2011, 12:11, Reply)

I saw the best dead one ever last year
upside down, absolutely rigid, all four legs in the air. It's like it stood on a small landmine and had a heart attack
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 19 Jul 2011, 12:14, Reply)

I regularly saw badgers and foxes near my old house.
I did live on the edge of a large public park, mind. The badgers were always poking around in the bin.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 19 Jul 2011, 12:24, Reply)