Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 11:14 am
Yeah, caddis, that's the proper method. If only...
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it beats doing nothing. Better yet, it beats another regulation concerning proper food storage or a silly lecture from a bureaucrat on bear safety when I pick up a permit or maybe a regulation on closing sections of the wilderness infected with rogue bearsarlopop61 wrote:Yeah, caddis, that's the proper method. If only...
This year I reported to SEKI rangers seeing a bear up in the White Chief drainage in Mineral King. That wasn't my reason for stopping by at the station though and was simply incidental information I provided during conversastion. I saw a bear up in that area on a previous trip so thought it rather novel. The ranger was rather surprised too given the 9k elevation. Otherwise although I've seen a lot of bears in the backcountry, I've never bothered to stop at a ranger station after a trip with bear encounters because there hasn't been anything out of the ordinary. Except for a bit of food on the last day of my first ever backpack decades ago, no bear has come close to getting anything from me except maybe that bear that used to chew off branches in Vidette Meadow. We had to scare that persistent bear off with rocks and then move our food a half mile to the bear boxes because we didn't wan't to waste any more good sleep time every time it snuck back to chew more wood. ...Davidmaverick wrote:By the way when you do have an encounter how many of you take the
time to stop by the ranger station to let them know?...!
August 1993. That mother bear became rather famous. I couldn't believe the chunks of wood her mouth could quickly dispatch. A six inch diameter limb probably would take her less than an hour.maverick wrote:Was that back in the 90's Dave. I remember staying at East Lake
and talking to two backpackers who where awaken in the middle of the
night by a large crash to find the 6" diameter branch they used to
hang there food was chewed all the way through the night before.
This took place at the southern end of East Lake.
Interesting. I was camped there in September 1994 and some fools were cleaned out by a bear--their 7 day trip reduced to 3 days when the bear got their food. They were about 150 yards from the downstream (N) bear boxes and apparently got too lazy their second night to move their food there.SSSdave wrote:August 1993. That mother bear became rather famous. I couldn't believe the chunks of wood her mouth could quickly dispatch. A six inch diameter limb probably would take her less than an hour.