[pct-l] Food in tents

[CHUCK CHELIN]

Good evening,

For those who are not very familiar with black bears, sometimes there can
be confusion about their size.  Since all black bears are shaped pretty
much the same, it’s difficult to know if we are seeing a large bear far
away, or a small bear up close.  There is one interesting
frame-of-reference that most people can learn after having seen a few of
the fuzzy-buggers.

Bear’s ears don’t seem to grow very much.  They look really large on a
cub’s head, while the ears on a big adult animal look like little round
things just tacked on.  Diane’s #1 photo shows an adult because the ears
look like they are each only about 1/8th the diameter of its face.  Her
bear in the tree is not a cub -- it’s a yearling -- with ears about
1/4ththe diameter of its face.

Steel-Eye

-Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT – 1965

http://www.trailjournals.com/steel-eye

http://www.trailjournals.com/SteelEye09/