We saw grizzlies when we hiked in Denali NP back in '93. (You have to carry a bear-resistant food container the park issues you, and watch a film about hiking in grizzly country.) We only ran into bears once (other than seeing them from the shuttle-bus windows) and we basically just rerouted our path to avoid them by A LOT. When they caught wind of us (we were making noise, as we were told; singing invented songs about bears) they also altered course to avoid us, and everyone, bear and human, was happy.
I've never hiked in a place where there are problem bears who KNOW humans are food carriers. Britt had some bad encounters in Yosemite where the bears ransacked their camp and they had to hike out XX miles with only a single granola bar between six people, or some such horror.
The last confirmed grizzly sighting in the San Juan mountains here was back in the 70s, I think.
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Date: 2008-07-10 01:58 am (UTC)I've never hiked in a place where there are problem bears who KNOW humans are food carriers. Britt had some bad encounters in Yosemite where the bears ransacked their camp and they had to hike out XX miles with only a single granola bar between six people, or some such horror.
The last confirmed grizzly sighting in the San Juan mountains here was back in the 70s, I think.