More on my video market recap after the bell, for a full and more serious discussion.
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“You’re not really here for the hunting, are you?” said the bear (rapist) to the oft-raped hunter.
I just re-read the cartoons and realized it was a joke—woe to the hiker who mistakes a brown/cinnamon-colored black bear for a brown grizzly and vice versa and fights back or plays dead when the reverse is the proper defense.
Clearly, the way to avoid a bear market is to assume the demeanor of an insane homeless person, with a collection of noisy trinkets.
I would love to see someone try and fight back. #bearsnack
At the nature center, the resource interpreter assembled the hikers who were going to backpack to the campground at higher elevation. He explained they were going into bear country and handed out little bells and pepper spray canisters to the intrepid Daniel Boone wannabe’s along with some further instructions.
The advice he gave concerned keeping an eye out for fresh bear scat along the trails and how to use that as a signal to indicate if a bear was near.
As the group hiked up the mountain trail they encountered a hunter and after some conversation he learned that they were watching for bear scat and had their bells and spray at the ready. The hunter asked if they had been told how to tell the difference between black and grizzly bear scat. When he learned they had not he explained thusly.
Black bears, he told them, were very omnivorous and their scat would contain remnants of berries, seeds, grasses and possibly some small animal parts. Grizzly bear scat however was always a larger volume pile, and it usually contained bells and smelled like pepper…….