Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 2:49 pm
"If you find the perfect campsite, and next to the obvious place to pitch your tent you find a small pile of pitching-sized rocks ... maybe camp somewhere else!"
Alternatively, maybe, since the rock pile is still there...no bears showed.
Glad you admit to using a can Cmon; I apologize - however...a few years past, up at Kearsarge Pass, (before the bearcan rules), one night camped above timberline; we stashed our food bags under a giant cairn and slept with one eye open...ready, armed with a granite aplenty.
Sometime in the early evening, the biggest bear I ever saw wandered by, destroying our rock pile...we fired.
The entire party pelted it with boulders...I hit it hard in the chest with a 10-pounder, others too - rapid fire. It just looked at us, turned back to the cairn, and walked away with a food bag.
Alternatively, maybe, since the rock pile is still there...no bears showed.
Glad you admit to using a can Cmon; I apologize - however...a few years past, up at Kearsarge Pass, (before the bearcan rules), one night camped above timberline; we stashed our food bags under a giant cairn and slept with one eye open...ready, armed with a granite aplenty.
Sometime in the early evening, the biggest bear I ever saw wandered by, destroying our rock pile...we fired.
The entire party pelted it with boulders...I hit it hard in the chest with a 10-pounder, others too - rapid fire. It just looked at us, turned back to the cairn, and walked away with a food bag.