I was with my friends on a hot summer day when they bet me that I couldn't go into the wilderness and camp with only a hunting knife and enough food to last me one day. I made the bet with one of them for $100 that I could. So I packed up and he brought me to Kuik Island, a sand island about 15 miles from our village. He dropped me off and headed home.

I was getting nervous and scared because I knew there were a lot of bears in the area I was in. Since the day was passing very slowly, when I got hungry I made a fire then took some food out of my back pack and started eating. I was too hungry to think about the bears smelling the food. After I was done eating I laid 'back on my pack and started to relax and almost fell asleep when suddenly I heard a splash of water. I froze and was so scared I couldn't move. I just lay there until I heard the footsteps come up right behind me. I slowly took out my hunting knife. Then I jumped up and turned around very fast. There staring at me in the face was a Grizzly bear. It stood about five feet over my head and looked at me with

hate in his eyes. Immediately I took some dry fish out of my bag and threw it to the grizzly. He gobbled it up and growled at me as if he wanted more. I had no more fish and I didn't know what to do, so I ran straight towards it and stabbed it in the chest. Just before I was going to stab it again it threw its giant paw out and hit me in the shoulder, making me fly 12 feet across the ground.

I lay there for awhile playing dead because I knew I had to. And when bear came over to me he started burying me. I was really scared. All of a sudden I heard a rifle shot, then another one. Then I heard the bear drop. When I turned around I saw the Grizzly bear Iieing dead on the ground, and my friend coming out of the twigs. He had shot the bear. I asked him how he got there, and he said he was worried about me because of the bears. I told him he didn't have to pay me the $100 bucks.

By: Chris Fitka