re: Polar Bear attacks man in Yukon. WARNING: NOT FOR WEAK STOMACHE

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lol.....Yeah, who knows if anything ever will be. I got it because I read it's accepted anywhere food is required to be protected so I didn't have to buy several types. I also read some researcher talk about how they are seeing bears simply go the other way when seeing a vault.

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Yeah, I would still keep it far from anywhere you sleep. My neighbor tried to convince me that spraying ammonia on stuff would keep bears away but the bears have proved that to be a falsehood. I have decided that anything containing food, even if it's encased in concrete is going to be a long way from me when i am camping.

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I leave to backpack around Mt. Hood friday morning (42 miles) and I hope I see a bear. I have never seen one in Oregon. Had a late summer so hopefully there are still a few huckleberries around.

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It's pretty awesome. Surprised at how curiosity replaces fear when you see them in the wild. Keep the camera handy, cause they disappear quickly.

Friend of mine is a helicoptor pilot and says when he flies over trails he is surprised to see how many bears he can spot in very close proximity to humans. Says they will hide behind bushes literally within feet of unsuspecting hikers.

I have never been around a polar bear but it's on the bucket list.

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I never cook in camp either

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Learned this the hard way.

A 4 day hunting trip on Chichagof Island turned into a 10 day trip of survival. Weather came in, clouds on the ground and we couldn't get a plane in. Chichagof is home to the densest (still highly intelligent in the animal world) bear population in the world (along with Admiralty Island)

Anyway, we ran out of food and had to eat Sitka black tail deer we killed which attracted a large quantity of brown bears. They don't care for people, but a prepared meal is just too much for a soon to be hibernating bear to resist.

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Damnit you do some cool shite

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An understatement

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Hairy....at the same time you can see how prepared you are for such a situation.

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Yeah, in times of survival you cut corners. Learned where and where not to cook food if it is absolutely necessary.

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I remember an article from outdoor life when I was a kid called "Dinner bell bear" about a hunter on Kodiak. They talked about how the gunshots were a signal to the bears that dinner was waiting for them

Anyway, the got was mauled and is lucky to be alive.

I read this story and others before I ever saw a bear or really knew about them. It was a couple of years later when I spent the summer in SE Alaska and learned that bears aren't the killers some make them out to be.

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Yeah, there are a couple of books (Alaska bear tales and Alaska bear tales II) that people read, and you would think it's a virtually killing field up here. I find them to be very predictable and not something to fear constantly. I guess an anomaly could always occur though, and change my mind.

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Was supposed to take my friend to Olypmic NP but he blew his ankle out. Anyway, he asks if I was bringing a gun for the bears
No grizzlies there so it isn't a real concern to me.

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My first wife was an avid hiker until she read "Bear tales." Funny, all those experiences around bears didn't turn her off to hiking but reading one book did.

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When hiking with my recent ex she was always asking....are there cougars here? I always said a flat out....yes there are now let's get moving.

reading is sometimes not good for you.

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Yep. I suppose things create a psychological barrier for some people. I grew up around snakes, spiders and all kinds of bugs in the south but you couldn't get me to crawl under a house to save my life right now.

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BourgsTheWord

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Thanks! I changed it for all the haters on the OT. They don't even know that IRL I'm a crazy blonde bish that could handle a gator.

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They don't even know that IRL I'm a crazy blonde bish that could handle a gator.

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If this is true I may go crazy. Good looking women holding their own in the wild turns me on like a mutha....