Jess is excited to spend his summer working in the mountains. He doesn't mind cleaning the park campgrounds. He doesn't even mind cleaning the toilets. But when the trail crew needs another member Jess gets the chance to trade his toilet brush for a shotgun and he takes that chance!Jess likes the idea of working with his cousin Bill who is always fun. And the black haired blue eyed Abby who seems to have a strange effect on Jess. And Old Joe who tells the best bear stories. Little does Jess know that by the end of the summer he will play a part in one of Old Joe's scariest bear stories.