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Amy Martin: Hey Bear.
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Amy Martin: I'm in Glacier National Park.
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Amy Martin: I'm walking out from Siyeh
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Amy Martin: Pass.
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Amy Martin: This is one of my favorite
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Amy Martin: hikes in the park.
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Amy Martin: And a couple
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Amy Martin: of miles back, I
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Amy Martin: had the-
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Amy Martin: hey bear!-
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Amy Martin: the lovely surprise and
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Amy Martin: somewhat dangerous situation of
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Amy Martin: seeing two
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Amy Martin: grizzly bear moms and
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Amy Martin: three cubs.
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Amy Martin: And I just walked over a big
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Amy Martin: pile of bear scat.
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Amy Martin: Hey bear.
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Amy Martin: So
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Amy Martin: I have this funny
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Amy Martin: experience of coming to this
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Amy Martin: place that I
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Amy Martin: love
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Amy Martin: and just soaking in the quiet
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Amy Martin: and loving it.
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Amy Martin: And then I need to be loud
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Amy Martin: for safety purposes.
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Amy Martin: But it's no joke.
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Amy Martin: Yelling "Hey Bear" saves lives.
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Amy Martin: I'm going to do it
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Amy Martin: right now.
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Amy Martin: Hey Bear.
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Amy Martin: Because if you surprise them and
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Amy Martin: they charge you or hurt you,
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Amy Martin: it's very
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Amy Martin: likely that bear is going to
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Amy Martin: get killed.
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Amy Martin: And of course, you might get
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Amy Martin: killed.
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Amy Martin: Neither option
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Amy Martin: is ideal.
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Amy Martin: Hey Bear.
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Amy Martin: It's so funny.
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Amy Martin: Just because we're so loud, I'm
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Amy Martin: so loud.
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Amy Martin: Moving around my daily life in
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Amy Martin: a car.
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Amy Martin: All the many things I do
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Amy Martin: that are just modern
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Amy Martin: human noise making.
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Amy Martin: And here,
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Amy Martin: where I'm at my quietest, here
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Amy Martin: it's like,
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Amy Martin: shout!
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Amy Martin: Make some noise!
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Amy Martin: And although it annoys
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Amy Martin: me to have to
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Amy Martin: do this,
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Amy Martin: there's something I think
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Amy Martin: that's also interesting
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Amy Martin: about it.
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Amy Martin: Here we are in this place where
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Amy Martin: as much as possible
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Amy Martin: the animal's needs are
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Amy Martin: in the forefront
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Amy Martin: and we have to adapt around
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Amy Martin: them.
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Amy Martin: I have to discipline myself
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Amy Martin: to the place and to
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Amy Martin: the animals in the place.
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Amy Martin: I have to
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Amy Martin: do something
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Amy Martin: that I would prefer not to do.
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Amy Martin: For all of our good,
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Amy Martin: mine, theirs, other hikers.
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Amy Martin: Hey Bear.
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Amy Martin: It makes me so, like,
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Amy Martin: hyper aware of my noise,
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Amy Martin: hyper aware of when I'm being
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Amy Martin: quiet.
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Amy Martin: What would it be like if every
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Amy Martin: time I
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Amy Martin: added noise to a place
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Amy Martin: I was super
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Amy Martin: aware of it?
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Amy Martin: Like I am with all this
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Amy Martin: hey-bearing. Hey Bear.
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Amy Martin: It's so hard to imagine what
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Amy Martin: that would be like because
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Amy Martin: it's so
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Amy Martin: not
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Amy Martin: the experience that I normally
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Amy Martin: have.
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Amy Martin: There's an airplane.
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Amy Martin: Hey there. Are you headed up to
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Amy Martin: the pass?
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Hiker: Yeah.
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Amy Martin: It's been a while now, but I
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Amy Martin: ran into 2 sows and 3 cubs.
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Hiker: Cool.
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Amy Martin: Yeah, it was very cool.
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Amy Martin: A little too close for comfort.
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Hiker: Yeah.
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Amy Martin: They're going the other way.
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Amy Martin: Just make a lot of noise.
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Hiker: Okay. Thanks for the heads up.
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Amy Martin: Yeah. Have fun.
