[pct-l] Scary bear story & not hanging food

[judson at jeffnet.org (Judson Brown)]

Of course, if they'd been using bear canisters, there wouldn't have been an
experience to handle.

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In a message dated 7/20/2004 4:33:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
Bighummel@aol.com writes:

> This is the exact thing that Tom used to say would lead to increased bear
> incidents of crashing tents and attacking sleeping hikers in the night.
>

Hold on Greg, no one's tent was crashed and no hikers were attacked either.

In this case, the bears may have been negatively re-enforced NOT to mess
with
a thru-hikers food.   The fact that they didn't get any food either, is a
big
plus.

I think the girls handled the experience well.

Sly
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