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Aw that was nothin... together, they had him out weighed:laugh:

i believe the book title was 'Backcountry Bear Basics'

did you jump in knowing they the bear was there?
and reached in & stroked it's fur:confused: ...wow... and i thought i was crazy for running my hand in a hole in the side of a creek bank turtle...

seems to me that more people have reported bears & other animals ignoring hammocks, paying little or no attention to them.
of course it'd be best not to smell like sardines<g>.

dave, that sounds about like what i might have done, chasing the bear away, but only after i had taken pictures<g>.
they need to be helped to keep their fear of people.
and welcome to HF. ...tim

welcome to HF tnoisaw. same here w/ the bears. ...tim

good story.
welcome to hammocking & HF. ...tim

yeah, you're right:o
i'm going to drive the work truck tomorrow & let some young whipper-snapper do the hard work.
but since i'm going to have to get up into the back of the truck to show him...

i wasn't talking about my driving skills:rolleyes:
i believe anyone w/ a decent knowledge of living in the woods, is safer there than on our hwys. ...tim

if we actually had a way of knowing, one thing that would be interesting is to know how many people have come with in a certain closeness to a black bear but never had a problem, or never even knew...

well that would be a story to tell the grand kids<g>.

here are more links that some of you may want to take a look at.
http://www.bear.org/Black/Articles/How_Dangerous_are_Black_Bears.html
they do indeed talk about deaths by black bears in the last...

now there ya go LOL. that ought to work<g>.

angrysparrow i liked that second article you linked. the over all tone was that in black bear only country, it's highly unlikely that you'll run into a...

now that's a classic<GGG>!!!

most of that seems to be accurate info, but i have to question at least a couple things, like the emphasis the writer (i didn't see the writer's name) put on black bears stalking people as food. i've...