I was scared up a power pole by a small pack of grey wolves once, about 80 miles north of Lac La Loche, SK. I was tieing-in some 25kV power-line, walking by myself from pole to pole, and heard light rustling just past the edge of the cutline. I sprinted(as best you can with hooks on your legs) about 50m to the next pole and straight to the top. I don't know if they ever came out of the bush, but I could see there were several big fuch-ing wolves. Sure wish I would have had a camera, but I was happier that I had a radio.
That was about 100miles west of where this happened:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2005/01/04/sask-timberwolf050104.html
I also used to work out of a place called Points North, SK where Kenton Joel Carnegie became the first victim of a fatal wolf attack in over 100 years in North America. I used to jog around the camp but stayed far away from the camp dump. I guess this poor student ventured too far from camp, alone and in the dark.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenton_Joel_Carnegie_wolf_attack
If you spend much of time in the wilderness of the Canadian Far North you'll see many wolves. The biggest one I ever saw was at Syncrude's Aurora mine, north of Ft. McMurray, AB. It was the alpha male and was hit by a truck. It weighed 210lbs. I would never have believed it. Canis Lupus Horriblis Humungous.
Coyotes are dangerous? Really?
