[GettinHeadStuds]

Lol...LA bears...

My experience with bears has been in Yosemite (4 days out in the middle of no-where near Hetch Hetchy Resevoir) and in Oregon (too drunk too remember where).

Experience in Yosemite:
4 days out on an 8 backpacking trip, my friend is cooking his dinner for lunch, we were starving. Me and my two other buddies were on the other side of this creek, trying to catch fish. Long story short, this black bear smelt my buddies grub and cruised into our camp. We had to chase him away three times before he wouldn't come back. Literally, all you need is a whistle and to jump up and down. I doubt he saw many people, we saw two people during that whole trip, and that was on the first day.

Oregon was the same thing, except that bear never came back after the first visit....40 drunk frat guys with too much to drink...I still have no idea what that bear was thinking.

I worked at REI for a couple summers in NorCal, that's where I learned about the whistle trick. Some pack pistols, I say that's just extra weight on your back, I pack a mariners whistle.

Unless I'm in AK, then I'm sporting a 30/30 locked and loaded, aim for the heart, grizzle's skull is thick.

EDIT: HIJACK!!