Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 18:46:15 -0300
From: "Wayne Culberson" <waynecul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [OM] Water shots and vacations (OT)
If I'm going into bear country, which is quite common around here, I carry
something a little more likely to put the odds in my favor than an airhorn.
It does make a noise , plus it has other advantages as well. There are a lot
of bear baits in this area, which can make them act more aggressively than
just normal encounters. Females with cubs are particulary not to be fooled
with, especially this time of year. I'm not sure about your statistics on
deaths from bear attacks, but I know of some attacks that have resulted in
some nasty injuries that have occured in my lifetime in this small part of
Canada alone. And we only have black bears. Generally however, they are
harder to find than get rid of. I've managed to photograph a few. Been
thinking about how to get a good photo of a live one.
Wayne
>By all your accounts, it looks like using your wife & children as bait
should do the trick ;)
Andy Gilbert
Exeter
Devon
England
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