So I recently had a conversation with someone about scary moments in life and wondered how I made it to my age while keeping my handsome face in tact. I came up with a few moments of my life where if I or the people I was with had done anything different I may not be here to write about it with you. Here are a few I came up with.

I grew up up in the mountains of Northern British Columbia Canada, and stuck around there to work most of my life. I work in oil and gas which put me in rather remote locations in the middle of the giant forests. Two of my stories involve working out of Helicopters.

I will start with the first story it involves me, a really angry black bear, and the two hour fight waiting for my helicopter to come back to get me out and f there.

I took the the helicopter to one of the wells that was having issues. The pilot had to take another guy to another well then get fuel so he dropped me off.

As I began working a black bear came out of the woods and decided he didn't like me there. He became aggressive, so I was forced to grab my bear spray and give him a blast in the face with it. (Yes he was that close) The bear didn't run but it gave me time to get on top of the little well shack about 10 feet in height.

The bear still did not like me there, and he was even more mad I had hit him with bear spray and continued to try and get a hold of me. For two hours I was there I spent the whole time on that well shack roof kicking at the bear to keep him away from me being his lunch until the helicopter came back and chased him off.

Needless to to say I never fixed the well that day.

What at are some of your stories of good split second decisions that may have saved your life.