[pct-l] Bears in the Cal Sierra -- What's Going On.

[reynolds@iLAN.com (Reynolds, WT)]

Them bears hate yous llamas.

Rangers will not mess with llama lady. The NPS like llamas, so they say, but
don't have any regulations on them [how do I know: I hike from Tolumne to
the end of Yosemite [north] and watched the Rangers avoid asking questions]

Still, bears learn and, in one instance a bear cub danced underneath the
llamas to attack a pack. Don't assume that you are safe.

Marion, lets hike together. When?

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: Marion Davison [mailto:mardav@charter.net]
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 6:55 PM
To: stillroaming@lycos.com; PCT List
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Bears in the Cal Sierra -- What's Going On.


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We bought bear cans in 2001, because we were doing two long trips,
mostly in Yosemite, and all in bear can mandatory land.  We hiked 40
days on these two trips, NEVER met a ranger, and saw two bears who were
running full tilt to get away from us and our big scary fuzzball llamas.

So there you go.  Anyway, at least we ain't scofflaws.  I won't mess
with a 5000 dollar fine.
Marion Davison, "llamalady"

"K. Scott Parks" wrote:

> I had 2 bear encounters on the PCT this year, one
> being near Lyell Creek.
>
> We had been hiking all day and it was dark when we
> stopped. We were ~6 miles from Tuolomne with the
> option of continuing in the dark our camping where
> we were. The stories of bears in this area was no
> secert and we really didn't want to camp here, but
> did anyways. This was about 6/15 and just after
> dark we had a visit by a very brazen bear. We were
> sleeping with our food (that's right, deal with it)
> but we did not cook in the area. This bear made a wide
> circle around our camp with us yelling and banging
> ice axes. It left us alone, end of encounter. 2 other
> pct hikers were not so lucky. They hung their food
> in an Ursack and about 2am a bear got its teeth into
> the bag. One of the ball'sy hikers stoned the bear from
> as little as six feet and the bear left, without food!
>
> Near the Benson Lake trail we ran into a ranger who
> asked us if we had bear cans. She says, "answer honestly".
> I told her no, I had an Ursack. She went on to explain
> that those weren't an approved container. She went on
> to say, "If I had to give every PCT hiker a ticket for
> not carrying a bear can, I'd have to give every PCT hiker
> a ticket." We talked a bit more and that was it. VERY cool
> ranger.
>
> Scott Parks
>
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