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Warding Off Bears - Backpacking Light Bears have been known to change their behavior based on their experience (gun shots have been known to attract bears because hunters leave the guts after cleaning the animal)
Bear Canisters: Design, Use Cases, and Reviews We hope this guide will help you understand bear canisters a little bit better You'll learn about various testing agencies, bear canister design, materials, usability, and user experiences Lastly, we’ll make some recommendations for bear canisters that reflect unique combinations of value, weight, and capacity
The Nose of a Bear - Backpacking Light Bears’ sense of smell is extraordinary - but their ability to detect properly contained food is often exaggerated This presentation explores the science of odor control, food storage systems, and campsite hygiene Learn how to reduce scent dispersion, prevent bear encounters, and responsibly protect both your food and the wildlife around you
Bear attack, Kenai Peninsula of Alaska, successful use of handgun I’m sure there are plenty of stories of people warding off bears with guns and also many with bear spray And thousands more by avoiding contact by making lots of noise, keeping a clean camp, and not being around food-conditioned bears We do what we can here in Alaska trying to get new people to do the right thing, but it’s a sisyphean task
How to Hide Your Food from Bears - Backpacking Light I wonder if bears, in their evolutionary history, have developed an olfactory apparatus that mostly zeroes in, especially, and to a very fine degree, on the far-off faint smell of a carcass And I wonder if, upon entering a known human campsite, they simply use their eyes, and being fairly intelligent, simply recognize the obvious food bag or canister, and set themselves to work upon it I use