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> From: Bruce Moorhead <bruceb at olypen.com>
> To: Mary Manson <tonihawr at email.msn.com>
> Subject: Re: Grizzly bears & use of emergency flares
> Date: Sunday, July 18, 1999 8:54 AM
>
> Like anything new & untried, just hope that an emergency flare can be lit
> real fast, with no surprises you didn't expect, i.e., practice with it
> beforehand under (somewhat!) similar conditions.
>
> Bruce Moorhead
> Port Angeles, WA
> (bruceb at olypen.com)
>
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> > From: Mary Manson <tonihawr at email.msn.com>
> > To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
> > Subject: Re: bears
> > Date: Saturday, July 17, 1999 4:47 PM
> >
> > >What about carrying a regular emergency flare?
> > >
> > >Last summer in the Lamar Valley of northern Yellowstone National Park,
I
> > ran >into a back country hiker (who also has worked as a forester for
the
> > USFS
> > >for many years) and he carried the standard emergency flare. The
idea,
> he
> > >told me, is to light it and hold onto it, if ever charged by a griz.
In
> > >fact, he said that once when hiking in Glacier it actually stopped a
> griz
> > >that was heading fast towards him. R/Steve
> >
> >
> > First logical non-weapon defence I've read - they aren't stupid, they
> > recognize a strange thing that could be dangerous - and an upright,
> > non-fleeing figure may signal a lack of fear of them as well. Since
they
> > are predators, they won't chance getting harmed in the finding out
> whether
> > the danger is real - unless they are sick and/or starving, when logic
no
> > longer applies .....
> >
> > Toni
> >
> >
> >
> >