[pct-l] Bear Encounters, Attacks Grow

[dude@coruscant.net (The Dude)]

maybe I am just really lucky...  but I have used stealth techniques in the worst bear areas (bear alley in Yosemite and near Vidette Meadow on the JMT) and I have never even ran into any bears.  perhaps stealth has allowed me to avoid confronting bears in the first place.

Ray Jardine's book has some good ideas about stealth camping:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0963235931/qid=997339382/sr=1-1/ref=sc_b_1/107-7253366-0326100


> "Reynolds, WT" <reynolds@ilan.com>, pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net "R.J.Calliger" <calliger@infolane.com> Re: [pct-l] Bear Encounters, Attacks GrowDate: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 18:37:52 -0800
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>At 1:58 PM -0800 8/8/01, Reynolds, WT wrote:
>>>From the LA Times, Tuesday August 7 page B-8
>>
>>'Black bears are increasingly displaying a bit of ursine bravado.... The
>>black bear population has doubled in the last 20 years. They now range south
>>almost to the Mexican border..... Last year 124 problem bears were
>>killed.....They can rip off a car door in 15 seconds......On July 29 Barbara
>>Morales was sitting at a table during a lunch break when a young bear bit
>>her on the arm. 'The bear was not scared of me in any way"....In Kings
>>Canyon Sherman Lambert was [clallenged] by a 250 pound black bear. Lambert
>>[attempted to scare the bear off] but the bear stood its ground without
>>fear....'
>>
>
>This sounds like my last enounter where I had to wave a flaming stick
>around right in the bear's face before it would desist coming at me...
>
>wrist rocket sleeps with me now...girlfriend gets one as well!
>oh- she still can sleep with me :-)))
>
>
>R
>
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