[philmont] Bear Ropes

They are there all right. If you haven't seen them, give yourself a pat on
the back, as your attention to miinimising smellables, more than any other
single factor, probably led the bears to conclude that you weren't worth
their time.

One bear story. In 1965 a bear raided our campsite, shared with several
sister crews. Bear found a way to shinny up a tree and outwit the bear bag
system of the day, eating most of a crews food. Our crew, too exhausted to
erect the bear bag system, put our stuff under a tarp and set a jelly mixed
with soap powder trap for the bear. (Warning: Do not try this at home. Do
not try this at Philmont. It can only be revealed now because the statute
of limitations for Philmont misdeeds has passed) Great chaos that night,
with bear noises and boys yelling. Next morning the results were learned.
Bear had eaten the other crews provisions, even though it had to climb to
get them and outwit the bear bag system. The jelly/soap powder bait had
been taken - and there were bear droppings very near where the bait had been
set - but our provisions were untouched. We had a few jokes at the sister
crew's expense over the next few days until arriving at the next food
pickup. And once during this trek we saw bear claw markings on wooden "swap
boxes".

Joe Jansen
JAJansenJr@gmail.com
Philmont 1965; 1978

On 1/18/07, Phil Brown <Phil@eisnc.com> wrote:
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> Philmont has as few bears problems as it does is due to the diligence
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Received on Thu Jan 18 18:41:02 2007