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Post by High Sierra Fan on Sept 13, 2015 16:03:23 GMT -8
Dropping stuff from a great height works to get at goodies inside hard shells: be they clamshells (gulls) or food storage canisters. www.outsideonline.com/2013656/yosemite-bears-keep-getting-smarterThat Snow Creek camping spot IS spectacular btw, pity if they banned camping there. You get a view straight across at the face of Half Dome. |
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Post by BigLoad on Sept 13, 2015 16:21:39 GMT -8
Uh-oh.
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Post by zeke on Sept 13, 2015 17:25:20 GMT -8
It might be fun to test the height it takes to break open the various canisters.
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Sept 13, 2015 17:35:47 GMT -8
The good news. Since bears can't fly (yet) they need a convenient cliff like this one. I bet that bear was just messing with a canister as they sometime will and one time it rolled off the cliff and smashed and the bear went after it, found it popped open and went: "Whoa!"
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Post by rebeccad on Sept 14, 2015 7:55:41 GMT -8
Can't be that hard to strengthen bear canisters. The only downside (to us) might be the added weight. Wouldn't take a lot to make them unusable. They are already a pretty huge burden. |
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Post by rebeccad on Sept 14, 2015 7:56:13 GMT -8
The good news. Since bears can't fly (yet) they need a convenient cliff like this one. I bet that bear was just messing with a canister as they sometime will and one time it rolled off the cliff and smashed and the bear went after it, found it popped open and went: "Whoa!" The bad news is that she has repeated it, many times. So camping near cliffs might be a bad idea. Of course, for some of us, it's a bad idea anyway  |
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Post by High Sierra Fan on Sept 14, 2015 20:37:37 GMT -8
Well, boo. What'd I they think this Grest Smoky Mountain? "Due to increasing bear activity along the Snow Creek trail and the potential for bear/human interactions the area to the south and east of the footbridge [3.3 MB pdf] will be closed to overnight camping. The National Park Service will continue to monitor the bears' activity and will re-open the area to camping as soon as possible. The trails and areas are open to day hiking." www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/wildcond.htm |
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