frediver wrote:Protecting Yogi is not the issue here; breaking the cycle of people equals food is.
Wrong - Protecting Yogi is the issue. Their home and we are just visiting.
The only way to break the cycle (people = food) is to deny bears access to carried food, force them to look elsewhere. Smell has little to do with anything.
While it is quite possible for an experienced woodsman to escape from carrying a can the majority of the time with little if any consequence, how egocentric is this? All it takes is one time, bearcan, ursack, or hanging where the bear succeeds and the cycle continues on.
A fed bear is (soon/destined to be) a dead bear.
Ursacks may work, and well, 98% of the time, but that is still too high as the few recorded failures only continue the cycle. Bear cans, at least the ones considered legal, have been proven to work better ...Carry the frickin' can.