[pct-l] Re: Bears in general, (not canisters):)

[Slyatpct@xxxxxxx (Slyatpct@xxxxxxx)]

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In a message dated 2/11/2003 2:37:53 AM Eastern Standard Time,
CMountainDave@aol.com writes:

> <<Personally, I
> would never, ever, under any circumstances sleep with my food in grizzly
> country.  No way, no how.   >>
>
> Amen. They scare the hell out of me.
>

They seem to scare the hell out of a lot of people.  We saw a few people
packing .45's in the wilderness areas and a couple in my group had bear
spray.  It was our intention to hike as a group as to lessen the chance of an
enounter.  The faster hikers kept doing their thing and I had a bad foot and
couldn't keep up.  You don't know how many times I felt like the wounded
animal, limping along and just ripe for the pickings.  After a while I just
gave up trying to keep up, hiked my own hike and  reserved to the fact if I
was going to get eaten, there was little I could do.

As fas as sleeping with my food, the way I look at it, is why would a Griz
bother with a few packs of triple ziplocked Lipton's, when I was the full
course meal.

Sly