…except an ever-so-tender kiss on the Trail-cheek after his brush with death!  Was there time for a life-flashing-before-his-eyes moment?  I wonder…  But Dusty and Cherry, not Rusty and Andy, found Mark a little worse for wear but alive and able to write non-stories and fight eco-evil another day…

OK, maybe this wraps a story line… we’ve been at this for 39 days… and we never even left Lost Forest!  Unless of course we consider the hint that Ol’ Dusty dropped a week or so back- the fact that there appears to be a poacher afoot!  Trapping bear and making them angry and aggressive…  So this is probably just a pit stop on the way to figuring that one out…

But a handful of stars and a thumbs-up to James Allen…  that was actually moderately exciting!