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but in this case, hanging the food doesn't make us any happier. so in this case we could still be our selfish selves and still not endanger the bears (and more importantly, ahem, ourselves).

if black bears were really that hard to coexist with, they would have found something like that.

this is exactly why promoting bear bagging to ignorant fools is unethical. Bears are far more likely to steal food from a tree than from someone's shelter, and, in my case, from under my sleeping...

i saw my first black bear on the trail just a few weeks ago, a few miles north of neels gap. the thing didn't know i was there until i was like 10-15 yards away. He took off like a race horse,...