T&T: Bears and cruising

[John Tones]

Faure, Marin wrote:
> The pepper spray is a great theory that you don't ever want to have to
> try because the chances are it won't work.  A charging bear is hopped up
> on adrenalin and has a lot of weight and momentum behind the charge.
>   
Reply - you know Marin, I could never figure out the rational behind the 
pepper spray idea because I figure that for it to just maybe have some 
minute effect you would have to be within 3 or 4 feet of the animal and 
I just can't see getting that close to ward the bear off. Having seen 
first hand the strength of a grizzly when they peel the steel door off a 
remote microwave building to see what's inside together with the speed 
they can run when we have come across them in a helicopter at low 
elevation, I would just as soon be 3 to 4 miles away from them.

I am not absolutely certain but I don't think pepper spray is allowed to 
be brought into Canada so there is another reason for the compressed gas 
horn being a better choice.

John Tones  "Penta"
Sidney, BC