"2. Always carry pepper spray accessible on the outside of your pack. Remember, within reach" I seem to recall reading an article in a recent issue of Backpacker that mentioned that if you are going to carry pepper spray to make sure that it is specifically BEAR spray(it should say so somewhere on the can)otherwise it isn't strong enough to be effective--I'm pretty sure thats what I read, but I should add a caveat about my memory. I'm sure the more bear-literate paddlers can correct me if I'm wrong. Also, When I was doing some hiking in Hokkaido Japan we were required to tie bells to the pack frames (because of the Brown bears they have)- I didn't see a bear the whole time, but it did give me advance warning of other approaching people...particularly useful warning system if you are trying to pee behind the only bush on the tundra:) -A *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Aug 16 1999 - 20:34:58 PDT
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