[Philmont] Black Bear Attack

I was at Philmont in 1986. The bears attacks (I think there may have been two
of them that year) were very much on everyone's mind. They even made us sleep
outside of our tents under the dining flies so we could be "aired out" during
the night instead of catching scents in our tents. The worse of it was that
they wanted us to keep bear watches every night, so our crew divided into
shifts so that someone was up watching for any sign of a bear while the rest
of camp slept. We kept bear watches during the first half of our trek, then
quit doing them. We wanted our sleep.

By the way, from what I heard about the bear attacks, both were caused by
kids being careless and not following the guidelines set by Philmont.

By the way, if you want to read about this trek taken in 1986 check out
http://melrosetroop68.org/High%20Adventure%20Journals/Philmont86.1.html

stevejb68
Scoutmaster, Troop 68, CMC
http://melrosetroop68.org

--- Nan C <french_henry@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Jason, you are getting old. :) The IW (or rather Old Camp) attack was in
> 2001, and that was the one with vomit by the sump. That bear was killed.
>
> Here are the ones we remember:
> 1986 was the bad one at Shaeffer's.
> 1997 was Copper Park, which was semi-accidental, although I do remember
> hearing afterwards that food may have been involved.
> 2000 a bear attacked a youth in a tent on Mt Phillips. Later they found
> food in a latrine. Mt Phillips was closed and rangers were used as bait.
> :) I don't think they ever got the bear.
> Also in 2000, hamburgers were cooked at RMSC and a youth's foot was bit and
>
> another tent was torn up. A ROCS crew at Webster Lake had a youth attacked
>
> (wearing cooking shirt to sleep in) (he returned as staff the next summer)
> and the crew had to fight the bear. That bear was killed on site.
> In 2003 a bear tore up the inside of Ute Gulch preseason, and managed to
> lock himself inside the comm. Ute Gulch Comm ended up with an electrified
> building that summer. That bear was killed.
> ALso in 2003 the geologist and his wife were in a wall tent at Baldytown,
> and a bear stuck his head in.
>
> Those are the ones we remember.
> -Nancy and Kevin

       
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Received on Tue Jun 19 22:26:09 2007