Advice please. (For those of you that already posted some in another thread please repost. I would like to see it).

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Stand still,cover you're self up with stink lay down and act corpsefied,pray to you're dear fluffy god.

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Advice please. (For those of you that already posted some in another thread please repost. I would like to see it).

I too have red x it. But the whole last part of the thread was a flamefest. Unfortunate that a mod had to take part. They should be there to calm things.

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Good bear advice here http://www.mountainnature.com/Wildlife/Bears/BearEncounters.htm

Basically a can of good pepper spray, not the cheap stuff, and some kind of noisemaker will help a lot. Bears are scared of things bigger and badder than themselves. This not being a common ocurrence in the wild, you need to make the bear THINK you are bigger and badder. Standing up really tall, raising your arms over your head, bears do not have really good eyesite, screaming, yelling and blowing a really loud whistle have helped some in the past. The pepper spray is for when they come too close. You need one that can spray out like 15 feer or more, they are NOT cheap. Also drop a backpack, if you are wearing one, to distract them if they chase you. You CANNOT outrun a bear!!!!! They can run MUCH faster than you and I. The part about your son being faster than the slowest person is why fainting goats are used in flocks to protect them against wolves. The wolf stops at the fainted goat and the real flock gets away.

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My uncle in ontario told me once.

If you encounter a bear you should know what kind of bear.

If you climb on a tree.
He can follow you as fast as you its a brown bear.
If he strikes the tree down its a grizzly.

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Stand still,cover you're self up with stink lay down and act corpsefied,pray to you're dear fluffy god.

Bears do not eat their large animal kills right away. They tend to bury them and come back later. So lying down and playing dead will get you a lot of bites and holes in your body and deep scratches and then buried, about 1/2 inch of dirt scrapped up over you, and then left for later. IF you can survive that, you can then run away after the bear leaves. Of course if you find a hungry bear, you are lunch!

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I heard: just standing still when the bear sees you and leaving the scene slowly watching him when his attention is away from you would be enough...

Maybe there are as many suggestions as people who survived an encounter with a bear...

If I really encoutered a bear in the wilderness I would stand frozen of shock - and my fear would catch his attraction :D

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I heard you should punch them in the nose, which is really sensitive. Of course, I wouldn't run up to a bear just for the fun of doing that. LOL

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Give him a big bear hug then mount him...a hickie wouldn't hurt either.











I meant on the wall, stupid....

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I will keep the sig until the offending post is removed...but this thread is to carry on a conversation that was started in a different thread but was considered off topic.

I have been given an idea of the posts that were removed and I wish to carry on this topic because as you can see the replies are quite interesting. :)

I also would like to know what to do if we encounter a bear as my son did ask! :D

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I also would like to know what to do if we encounter a bear as my son did ask! :D

OK, let me impart something that happened to my buddy & I when we were backpacking thru the Smoky Mountains.

We met a park ranger, a very foxy one I might add. She was hiking in the same direction & camping at the same site as us. So we all hooked up & hiked together up to the campsite.

We got there later on that evening. We secured our food hanging from trees with rope, & went to our respective tents to sleep.

My buddy & I were sleeping when we were woken up by a bear outside of our tent sniffing around for food. Picture two grown guys petrified about this bear walking right into our tent & shredding both of us.

Picture this park ranger (very short, about 5 foot 1 inch) roaring out of her tent, waving her arms, pots & pans going yelling at the top of her lungs & running straight for that bear!

That bear hauled a$$ so fast, and we never had anymore problems with anymore bears that night.

Never tease or otherwise provoke a bear with food. Given easy food a bear will have it, one way or another. Man is considered a natural enemy to bears, so wild bears are not usually a problem. It's the one's in parks to be wary of because they are not as afraid of man as they consider people a source of food, because people feed them. Don't ever feed a bear! If you are eating, & a bear comes around, make as much noise as you can, but if that fails, desert your food & consider it a loss.

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Dune's and Mikey's responses seem to correspond pretty well with something I read in early May in a newspaper. Seems there've been some encounters with bears within 30-60 miles of my old stomping grounds (from 1973 to 1991). I do think, though, they did say something about how close the bear is to you (or, how far?) before taking those actions, like yelling, etc. ... . Check this, but I think if the bear is a good distance away from you, act instead as Thorin suggested. ???

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In addition to Mikey's suggestion to read: http://www.mountainnature.com/Wildlife/Bears/BearEncounters.htm

http://www.ehow.com/how_240_survive-encounter-with.html

http://fwp.mt.gov/mtoutdoors/downloads/BearAttack.pdf

http://bears.mnr.gov.on.ca/gen_encounter.html

http://www.environmentyukon.gov.yk.ca/fishwild/bearenc.html

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A bare what?

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

A bare what?

Park ranger. :^D

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A bare what?

Park ranger. :^D

dont do that no more

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A bare what?

Park ranger. :^D

dont do that no more

I don't think he did, even though she was a fox and only 5'1". ;)

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squat on the ground and make like a skunk...

A bare what?

Park ranger. :^D

dont do that no more

I don't think he did, even though she was a fox and only 5'1". ;)

No he didn't. But it did cross his mind. Sorry Esme, back to the subject.

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