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Posted by D. Burton on July 19, 2007 at 9:43:13 pm EDT
In reply to Favorite Backcountry/ Adventure Quotes posted by jeffrey on July 10, 2007 at 2:51:53 pm EDT

"I have good news and bad news....the good news is that our packs are going to be a lot lighter!"

- My husband's friend Steve on a backpacking trip in Yosemite, trying to break it to me gently that a bear had gotten to our food bag and eaten about half of our food. This was more than 20 years ago before bear barrels were readily available, let alone required in places like Yosemite. We had hung our food in a tree with the traditional method using counterweighted bags.

The rest of the story: I repaired the ripped stuff bags with dental floss and duct tape and we continued, glad that I had packed a little more food than we needed. The next night, even though we really tried hard to put up a better bear bag, a bear [same one?] got it down and ate every last scrap of food. It even ripped open the back of a small can of meat spread [it didn't need the pull-top!] and licked it clean. We cut short our trip and hiked to the valley floor. My husband got a ride all the way back to our car by a man who decided that the long ride (over an hour) was a perfect opportunity to proselytize.

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