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Originally Posted by mentor
In the field with the Marines in Alaska our survival instructor told us to always wear little bells and carry pepper spray because of the bears.
He went on to say that you can always tell the kind of bear by it's scat. You can always tell the black bear because it's scat is full of nuts and berries. The brown bear is even easier. it's full of little bells and smells like pepper!
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lol.
Some of my friends had bells on thier backpacks, ...I always tried to sing while hiking up the mountain. That shit will scare any bear away.
.. part of the fun of those trips....Being in your tent late at night, miles from the nearest road, and hearing something shuffle outside....(jitters).