[Magdalen] Product comparison: bear repellent sprays

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

Grizzly Bear scat is easy to spot. It smells like bear repellent.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 6:28 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> This is funny, because I just recently learned about these, and they are
> actually recommended as a fall-back deterrent--like Mace. The bears will
> run. But we only have black bears here, not grizzlies, and it's usually
> enough just to make a lot of noise, and they'll run away.
> Funny story:  A couple of years ago three of us were hiking to the top of
> Old Rag to do some trail maintenance and check on a couple of rare plants
> at the summit.  We spotted a bear down off the trail, and it looked at us
> for a minute and returned to its foraging, and we went on.  A little later
> we had stopped to rest, and a couple came up from the way we had come, and
> we asked if they had seen the bear. They said it had been right in the
> middle of the trail. The woman, who had a German accent, said she knew you
> were supposed to wave your arms and make a lot of noise. She said,"The only
> thing I could think of was the German national anthem, so I started singing
> it at the top of my lungs, and the bear ran away!"
>
> > On May 13, 2017, at 6:03 PM, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> wrote:
> >
> > https://www.bearmageddonnews.com/2017/02/23/top-bear-
> sprays-compared-which-one-gets-you-killed-fastest/
> >
> >
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