bear advice
Hanging food or sleeping w food, what the safest?
Ps. i don't have a cannister,just some ziplocks.
Safest for you or safest for your food?
Oh boy !!Originally Posted by cschriner999
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Safest for me
Assuming you are asking about what to do when hiking on the east coast in Black bear territory and are not talking about out west where they have grizzly's... My personal opinion is keep your food with you at all times. When we say keep food in our tents, what we actually mean is that our food is with us at all times, as it is the presence of a human that keeps black bears away.
The main problem with hanging bear bags is that so many people do it incorrectly that they end up teaching the bears to associate the bags in the trees with an easy meal and then it becomes useless.
There are a few places, such as some spots in Georgia where there bears are so used to stealing food from hikers that they have largely lost their fear of being near humans, if you're in these areas you might want to take additional precautions.
Also I notice you are from New York, if you are hiking the A.T. in your area, most of the shelters have steel bear boxes setup for food storage. Use these and you won't have to worry about it either way.
If you want to learn more about black bears, here's a great site.
http://www.bear.org/website/bear-pag...ear-facts.html
If you do decide to hang a bear bag, use the "PCT" method and make sure that you have the bag high enough above the ground and far enough away from the trunk of the tree so that a bear can't reach it.
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I understand. Sometimes, it's best to ask. Never know what's on some people's minds.
Bag it. UP IN A TREE.
FYI, there are almost no grizzlies in the lower 48.
http://www.sightline.org/research/gr...-grizzly-cs06/
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.
I'm hiking along the Ga NC border
If you see a grizzly there that's not in a zoo, you'll be famous.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.
Ha! Not too worried about grizzlies in this area just the black bears
i always sleep with my food in my tent
Really? That must make me pretty damn special since I've seen them in Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho.
Humans in the Lower 48 shouldn't be bothered with them much longer though. Humans don't like being at the top of the food chain or having to compete with wildlife. Bears may have fangs and sharp claws, be fast and powerful, but humans have guns and, oh SO OFTEN self serving human agendas, so humans will win. Make no mistake about it. It is a competition between bears and humans for resources just like humans are in competition with SO MANY other species sometimes even among themselves. Even though some humans seek to live in harmony with other species there are just too many humans who don't have the goal of coexistence so like grizzly bears MANY other species will be pushed out of the way so humans can and will have what they want. Maybe, humans will be entertained for awhile with these pushed out of the way species only existing caged in zoos but even that situation will become problematic in the long term.
Ignorance, fear, human centric thinking, and a weapon are a dangerous and often fatal combination. Might say humans often behave like a swarm of ignorant inconsiderate self-absorbed self-serving consuming everything in sight locusts. Locusts don't have guns though.
Isn't sleeping w food inside the tent
Tempting bears to come in the tent for food?
what can a best smell stronger, food or a human?
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It's about possession with black bears.
Wow, good to know... only ran into 6 last year.
They must have been lost?
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