[pct-l] Bear Canister thoughts

[reynolds@xxxxxxxx (Reynolds, WT)]

Brick-

We agree. However, my response was to Sly's questioning the harm of sleeping
with ones food.

I would PERSONALLY write a $5000 ticket to someone sleeping with his/her
food.

If what you say is true, why is Sly sleeping with his food?

If one wants to stealth camp in early season before the bears are active one
should simply toss their food on the ground and go hungry if a bears shows
up. Don't Bullsh!t me saying that stealth camping works. Put your food where
your mouth is.

Notice that Sly didn't have the BALLS to do that. He risked MY LIFE by
helping to train a bear to crash tents.

-----Original Message-----
From: Brick Robbins [mailto:brick@fastpack.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 5:54 PM
To: pct-l@backcountry.net
Subject: RE: [pct-l] Bear Canister thoughts


At 04:02 PM 1/23/03, Reynolds, WT wrote:
>Bears are crashing tents for food. There was an incident in Center Basin.
>This was the incident that caused Kings Canyon to implement the Forrester
to
>Woods Creek zone.

Tom:

Both these incidents were during peak season and occurred at well used
campsites.

The current discussion is about thru-hikers on the normal thru-hiker
schedule. In a normal year, thru-hikers will be well past the problem areas
before the bears get there.

Tom, I doubt you will get much argument from **anyone** that weekenders in
high season should use canisters. The only argument is whether thru-hikers
need them.


--
Brick Robbins

  The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and
   the intelligent are full of doubt.
------- Bertrand Russell

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