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Fw: [pct-l] Bears and Alcohol



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> From: Joanne Lennox <goforth@cio.net>
> To: Kurt Herzog <kpherzog@cdsnet.net>
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Bears and Alcohol
> Date: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 8:04 AM
> 
> Years ago my husband was climbing in the olympic mountains.  A bear(s)
bit
> through all their white gas fuel bottles.  They think that the genesis of
> this action was based in the fact that there were also food cans in the
> same area, these had been bitten and the contents slurped out(or drained
> onto the ground and eat thereupon).  Some things are beyond our
imaginings
> but not the bears!
> 
> It would be indeed unfortuante if a bear were to drink denatured
> alcohol,because it might be palatable but would in the end be poisonous
> (causes blindness).  With the white gas, I doubt that it would actually
be
> drunk after the initial contact.
> 
> Goforth
> 
> 
> 
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