[at-l] ursack and jardine

[cwillett@math.uiuc.edu (Christopher Willett)]

In areas with habituated black bears, bear bagging is close to worthless.
Black bears, having figured things out, climb the anchoring tree and
cut the rope.  Then they eat the food.  Trying to scare off a bear
that isn't afraid of humans isn't a good idea.  In areas with a
lot of people, just making your food more difficult to get than
others is often good enough.  For example, stash your food
10 or so feet up on a rock face.  If your neighbors food is on the
ground, the bear will eat that rather than taking the effort to
do some rock climbing.  Storing food in your tent in areas with
humanized bears isn't wise, but people seem to get away with it.

Chris

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Chris Willett
cwillett@math.uiuc.edu
http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~cwillett
Department of Mathematics
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 jtwilkins@comcast.net wrote:

> Wow, you have to have some....umm ursacks of steel to test out the useless
> bear bagging from Jardine.
> I personally will take the time to throw a rope over the tree. I have seen
> what squirrels, mice and chipmunks can do. Imagine a 600lb chipmunk.
> JTW
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> does anybody on this list have experience with the URSACK?
>
> And how Jardine's idea that bear bagging is useless??
>
> "God does not play dice." - Einstein
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