[pct-l] PCT's birds and other critters

[blisterfree at isp01.net (Brett)]

> "stealth camping" hahahaha
>
> tell the bear who hears you and the 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 other 
> chattering
> "stealth campers" you're stealth camping, therefore are 
> safe from them
> helping themselves to yr food.

Sure, a bear _could_ find you at a stealth site. No 
guarantees of 100% success. But a genuinely stealth method 
of camping - well away from established sites, on pristine 
ground, away from trails and corridors of human and bear 
activity, and not cooking at these sites - can greatly 
reduce the chances of a bear encounter. A bear follows his 
nose. Avoid tickling the thing at all costs.

IMO, the "bear can mentality" suggests the impossibility of 
avoiding bears. Matters of legality aside, this is often a 
false assumption. But it is propagated by the feds because 
they want people to camp in established sites, where bears 
are omnipresent. They can't suggest stealth camping to the 
masses. And it wouldn't work if everybody did it, at least 
where human numbers are so high that bear cans are ever an 
issue in the first place.

- bf

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