[pct-l] Avoiding Bear Problems

[Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes]

Are you saying that you stink?

I actually do the same as you.

And yes, I stink.

Diane

On Jul 11, 2011, at 10:00 AM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> My approach to avoiding bear problems on the PCT is pretty simple:   
> I use an
> approved bear ?can in the approximate 200 miles of trail which  
> require such;
> and I take no special care whatever on the remaining 2463 miles.   
> That means
> no hanging food from the trees; no odor-proof sacks; no ?stealth?  
> camping;
> no moth balls; and no other type of supposed repellant/deterrent  
> except for
> one that?s evolved in the region over the last approximately 10,000
> years:  Human
> scent, which wild bears have learned means big-time trouble.  So  
> far with
> that plan -- and after about 50 years -- I?ve not lost a morsel of  
> food to
> them.
>
> A few times I have used an unlined Ursak tethered at ground level  
> to a tree
> in marginal non-SIBBG controlled areas, but I doubt if I?ll even do  
> that in
> the future.
>
> Steel-Eye
>
> Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT ? 1965
>
> http://www.trailjournals.com/steel-eye
>
> http://www.trailjournals.com/SteelEye09