"Occasionally a visitor may be fortunate enough to see a black bear, a moose or an elk," says the Kootenai National Wildlife Refuge website. In lieu of any of those, I saw the most fidgety nature watchers who ever hiked a trail. If one of them saw a bird, they'd turn with a start and go "Oh, bird," breathy and with the stress on the "oh" so it came out like OHbird, or OHbutterfly. Then they realized there were bugs, and it went from OHbird to OHmosquito and OHbeeBIGbeeflyingRIGHTBYME. There were six of them doing this at once, each one sort of hopping as they yelped - very Monty Python-esque. OHMarcus hiked the OHtrail as fast as he could to get some OHpeace and OHquiet, until it was time to head back to the OHhotel.

Now listening to: "It's All In My Mind" by Teenage Fanclub

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