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There’s a book about this, it seemed really interesting because the tiger stalked him for days I’m pretty sure.
Edit: found it https://www.amazon.com/Tiger-Vengeance-Survival-Vintage-Departures/dp/0307389049
Tigers are vengeful as well as thoughtful when it comes retribution and payback... Check this book out. It's a great read. I remember reading a part where a tiger brings a tribute to a character in the book because it figured out that person helped him out earlier.
Nah. Buffalo and Bison are completely interchangeable in modern American English. Yes, the binomial nomenclature is bison bison, but buffalo is also accepted in casual conversation.
I know because I listened to this book on Audible, so I’m pretty much a buffalo expert:
https://www.amazon.com/American-Buffalo-Search-Lost-Icon/dp/0385521693/ref=nodl_
(Also - it’s a fantastic book. Highly recommended).
I've got this book which is a good read a short enough to give plenty of examples of animals going out of their way to find altered states.
Markov wasn't the only person this tiger ate. There's an excellent book about this incident, called The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival. It's a fascinating read, and is full of information about the plight of tigers and other wildlife in the Russian Far East as well as human struggle for survival. Highly recommended.
The Russian version, involving a Siberian tiger and the government-funded team assigned to track it down, is the subject of my single favorite documentary book ever: The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant.
Believe it or not tigers are known for revenge kills and keeping grudges. This book details a very specific case of that. Amur tiger wounded by a poacher and he stalked him for days and even went to his house and destroyed everything in it and then waited for the the guy to come back and killed him too.
Time you should do some reading, my know it all friend. You can start here: https://www.amazon.com/Tiger-Vengeance-Survival-Vintage-Departures/dp/0307389049 The Tiger is a true story of how a pissed off tiger stalked and killed modern armed hunters:
Outside a remote village in Russia’s Far East a man-eating tiger is on the prowl. The tiger isn’t just killing people, it’s murdering them, almost as if it has a vendetta. A team of trackers is dispatched to hunt down the tiger before it strikes again. They know the creature is cunning, injured, and starving, making it even more dangerous.
Read that book and come back here once you get a real idea just how scary a big cat can be. I hunt, and it even creeped me out.
There is good book on Amazon called "Animals and Psychedelics" (https://www.amazon.com/Animals-Psychedelics-Natural-Instinct-Consciousness/dp/0892819863) explaining how the shamans watched the deer eating the mushrooms and tripping on it.
I think you would enjoy this book. The central thesis is that the tendency of a small portion of any given population to experiment with altered states actually serves an important behavioral evolutionary purpose for the species.
http://www.amazon.com/Animals-Psychedelics-Natural-Instinct-Consciousness/dp/0892819863
My apologies if I came off as an ass, whiskey tends to corrode my filters. You were right about the heat part, I just thought I would give my two cents about the pH. This is the first time my studies have actually been relevant to a reddit discussion so I couldn't resist. I'm glad people find hot springs as interesting as I do!! I wish I could have gotten into the discussion when the post was first starting but oh well. Before each field expedition, we're required to read the first chapter of "Death in Yellowstone" which details that story about the dude and his dog. Its crazy how fast you can die in YNP, bears, bison, hot springs, tourists in 60 foot long RVs, its just plain absurd.
Here's the book. Really well written, highly suggest it.
I thought the same thing until I read this:
>From American Buffalo: “Makers of fine bone china began to purchase the best of the bones, those that weren’t too dried or weathered … Other big consumers of quality buffalo bones were the sugar, wine, and vinegar industries; they had been using wood ash to neutralize acids and clarify liquids, but in the early nineteenth century they found that bone ash did a better job of making sugar more shiny and wine less cloudy.”
https://www.amazon.com/American-Buffalo-Search-Lost-Icon/dp/0385521693
Not about Alaska but this book is about a ranger who went missing in the High Sierra’s. I read the book and loved it. Passed it onto a friend who then passed it onto another friend. Couldn’t recommend it enough
https://www.amazon.com/Last-Season-P-S-Eric-Blehm/dp/0060583010
I recently signed up for Ryan Holiday's newsletter for his book recommendations. I'm only a few weeks into it, but I picked up 'The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival' based a newsletter from a few weeks ago. I generally hate getting newsletters, but so far this one seems to be worth it. I picked up a couple of his books too. I'm getting 'The Tiger' today, so I haven't read it yet, but in addition to Holiday raving about it, the reviews are pretty good too.
Here is the blurb about The Tiger from Holiday's newsletter:
Damn this book is good. Just so good. Even if it was just the main narrative—the chase to kill a man-eating Tiger in Siberia in post-communist Russia—it would be worth reading. But it is so much more than that. The author explains the Russian psyche, the psyche of man vs predator, the psyches of primitive peoples and animals—and he does it in such a masterful way that you’re shocked to find 1) that he knows this, and 2) that he fit it all into this readable and relatively short book. I’ve recommended this book to thousands of people and have heard countless times how much they loved it. Not a single complaint.
I also just started 'The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters'. It seems like it'll be OK, but I'm not far enough into it yet to know if I'll like it or not.
Book
https://www.amazon.com/Tiger-Vengeance-Survival-Vintage-Departures/dp/0307389049
story
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129551459
It's a true story he tried asking people in his village for help. But they were scared and left him to it. So in 12-48 hours he was getting hunted desperate for help. He hid in his cabin and the tiger waited behind a matress outside. Stalking him, and him knowing he was next. Everyone in village knew about it too. And had warned him not to take the tigers kill/food.
Book
https://www.amazon.com/Tiger-Vengeance-Survival-Vintage-Departures/dp/0307389049
story
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129551459
It's a true story he tried asking people in his village for help. But they were scared and left him to it. So in 12-48 hours he was getting hunted desperate for help. He hid in his cabin and the tiger waited behind a matress outside. Stalking him, and him knowing he was next. Everyone in village knew about it too. And had warned him not to take the tigers kill/food.
It was in 1997 so yea not the same tiger as the picture
Book
https://www.amazon.com/Tiger-Vengeance-Survival-Vintage-Departures/dp/0307389049
story
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129551459
It's a true story he tried asking people in his village for help. But they were scared and left him to it. So in 12-48 hours he was getting hunted desperate for help. He hid in his cabin and the tiger waited behind a matress outside. Stalking him, and him knowing he was next. Everyone in village knew about it too. And had warned him not to take the tigers kill/food.
I posted it in the comments already but ok
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129551459&t=1634858909575
The tiger on amazon too its the book
https://www.amazon.com/Tiger-Vengeance-Survival-Vintage-Departures/dp/0307389049
Lots of good books too, this is the one I bought a couple of years ago, great info:
https://www.amazon.ca/Bushcraft-Outdoor-Skills-Wilderness-Survival/dp/1772130079
Viimati lugesin John Vaillanti "The Tiger. A True Story of Vengeance and Survival", soovitan, viib päris hästi mõttelisele reisile kuhugi Primorje kraisse (nagu selgub, pole päris õige öelda "karuperse", kuna tiigrid söövad sealkandis karud ära, huntidest rääkimata), isegi kui vahepeal tuli tunne, et ei julge ka siin Eestis enam üldse pimedas õue minna. Sarnasel lainel varasemate tõsielu-raamatutega, mis mulle meeldinud, nagu Jon Krakaueri Into the Wild ja Into Thin Air.
Tehniliselt võttes on pooleli Jeff Nooni "The Body Library" ja vist jääbki pooleli, sest tal läheb seal võhm jutustamisviisile loo asemel ja ma ei jaksa. Samamoodi Tõnu Õnnepalu "Pariis" (kingiti), ma ei suuda lugeda neid ei millestki toodetud tähemärke ja mõttetut ilulemist.
Tahaks mingit head ulmet lugeda, aga ei tea, mida. Mul muidugi on ka hulk Gibsonit ja M. Banksi siiani lugemata.
I'm late to the thread and am surprised to see no one has linked the amazing book by John Vaillant The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
So worth a read!
As Snowshoe Thompson said back in the 1800s, "There is no danger of getting lost in a narrow range of mountains like the Sierra, if a man has his wits about him." He had also commented that it was "unnecessary ever to remain so long in the mountains that one need be afraid of starving to death". However, the key part is the "has his wits about him" bit, as these days many people do not and thus require rescue.
Still, that's no reason not to look through a field guide, and one that comes to mind is The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada. Bushcraft is less common, in many areas the ecosystem is too delicate for such activity, and of course there's little need for it anyway.
(Pedantic note: Just as "deer" are not called "deers", the mountain range is simply the "Sierra")
What sorts of animals do you like?
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival is fantastic.
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival seems like a good book to submit to my book group for consideration. Thanks for the comment.
This article is highlighting this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Tiger-Vengeance-Survival-Vintage-Departures/dp/0307389049
Totally legit, a very enjoyable read.
The best possible outcome is to never see a tiger in the wild. You'll live longer that way.
There an amazing book based on a true story of a man eating Siberan tiger's vengeful behavior in Russia by John Vaillant. https://www.amazon.com/Tiger-Vengeance-Survival-Vintage-Departures/dp/0307389049
Not the book you're asking for, but check out "The Last Season" by Eric Blehm. https://www.amazon.com/Last-Season-P-S-Eric-Blehm/dp/0060583010
It's an adventure biography about Randy Morgenson, a Sierra legend, family friend of Ansel Adams and protector of nature. Spoilers in this link: http://www.backpacker.com/survival/survival-stories/missing-in-action-how-a-backcountry-ranger-with-28-years-experience-disappeared/
The general rule of thumb is to call 1/3rd of your bodyweight a hard maximum for pack weight. At that point, the extra weight gets pretty hard on your joints (not to say I haven't seen some beastly men carrying 70+lb packs, but no one considers that situation ideal).
33lbs is on the light side. That's not a bad thing! As long as you've got your essentials, you should be all set. I'm assuming you have a stove and fuel -- there are no campfires permitted in Desolation, and frankly cooking on a fire is a huge pain in the ass. Your stove is also your emergency water supply is something happens to your filter (unlikely, but hey).
If you're on a solo trek, I suggest a novel and/or journal for the evenings. They can get lonely. If you're a curious human being, the John Muir Laws field guide to the Sierra is literally the greatest field guide I've ever encountered. I carry mine every trip into the mountains, and a pen. I write down where and when I get a positive ID on a new species of flower, bird, mammal, etc. It's a bit on the heavy side (maybe a pound?) making it a luxury for sure. Definitely not an essential for your first trip, but if you start getting curious, that's the best field guide ever.
It sounds like you're gonna do great! Have fun and be safe! If you happen to remember, report back when you get home safe! I'm going to spend the weekend wondering if I've killed a Redditor...