A bear is a nose that walks on big claws. They can smell your food in any container. They sure smell you, no matter what the food situation. Leave your sealed dry bag on an anthill and see what happens. Only a human could possibly think that bears won't smell whatever you're carrying. A couple of years ago a kayak trip in northern Norway was turned into a survival trip by bears which ripped the kayaks to shreds to get the food stored in bags-in-bags in the hatches of the boats. Loss of the food was an annoyance, loss of the boats was almost deadly. Luck and skill are easily confused. I've known whitewater paddlers who were convinced that were skilled becuase they never got killed swimming after wet extiting in Class IV water. ps I'm taking my youthful offender trip, that some of you know about, to Glacier Bay this summer, so this bear thing is really serious to me. I've talked to a couple of animal behaviorists who know bears and they gave me the first line of this message. Jim Tibensky _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri May 31 2002 - 08:30:29 PDT
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