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Bear Canisters are pretty tasty

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Jun 27, 2017 at 1:39 pm #3475776

DAN-Y
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@zelph2

I was surfing and came across these today:

Jun 27, 2017 at 1:40 pm #3475777

Ken Thompson
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@here
Locale: Right there

They are marketed as bear resistant.

Jun 27, 2017 at 1:50 pm #3475779

Jerry Adams
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@retiredjerry
Locale: Oregon and Washington

It would be hard on them if they were in the ocean. Subjected to sun so they would get UV damage. Many strikes against rocks. Hard to compare with what a bear would do.

Jun 27, 2017 at 1:56 pm #3475781

MJ H
BPL Member

@mjh

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more furry and less UV intensive.

Jun 27, 2017 at 2:06 pm #3475785

BlackHatGuy
Spectator

@sleeping
Locale: The Cascades

Thanks. I’ll definitely not use them to build a raft…

Jun 27, 2017 at 2:47 pm #3475799

Katherine .
BPL Member

@katherine
Locale: pdx

what you really gotta watch out for are the mini sharks.

Jun 27, 2017 at 2:50 pm #3475801

BlackHatGuy
Spectator

@sleeping
Locale: The Cascades

They discovered a mini shark that figured out how to open a bear canister with its fin. Grey grey, I believe, is the shark’s name. True story.

Jun 27, 2017 at 4:16 pm #3475818

Bob Moulder
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@bobmny10562
Locale: Westchester County, NY

They are marketed as bear resistant.

And bears certainly have a lot of time on their paws.

Jun 27, 2017 at 4:46 pm #3475824

Pedestrian
BPL Member

@pedestrian

Now all you Ursack aficianados imagine how many of those sacks you would find in Grey grey’s stomach if that monster were ever to be captured!

Jun 27, 2017 at 5:29 pm #3475842

Ken Thompson
BPL Member

@here
Locale: Right there

The Kevlar is non digestible. Wait and you can get it back.

Jun 27, 2017 at 5:32 pm #3475844

MJ H
BPL Member

@mjh

Fill it with Taco Bell and your wait is shorter.

Jun 27, 2017 at 5:57 pm #3475848

DAN-Y
BPL Member

@zelph2

here’s another:

Jun 27, 2017 at 6:00 pm #3475849

Bob Moulder
BPL Member

@bobmny10562
Locale: Westchester County, NY

Yeah, but that one looks like polyethylene, not polycarbonate, so probably not an actual bear canister.

Jun 27, 2017 at 6:08 pm #3475854

Ken Thompson
BPL Member

@here
Locale: Right there

My dog could have done that.

Good one Jerry.

Jun 27, 2017 at 6:36 pm #3475858

Lester Moore
BPL Member

@satori
Locale: Olympic Peninsula, WA

I’d like to know how two hikers lost their expensive bear canisters, presumable falling into a river and being washed out to sea. Or maybe they were camping on the coast and stored their canisters below the high tide line?

Jun 27, 2017 at 6:40 pm #3475860

Pedestrian
BPL Member

@pedestrian

^^
No they were surfing.

Read the thread again. ;)

Jun 28, 2017 at 6:44 am #3475944

Steofan M
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@simaulius
Locale: Bohemian Alps

Seals, maybe?

Perhaps GIANT sea otters, whacking these with rocks while floating along on their backs? It might take all day but would make a great ad for Mountain House.

Jun 28, 2017 at 7:37 am #3475948

Jerry Adams
BPL Member

@retiredjerry
Locale: Oregon and Washington

I’d like to know how three people lost their canisters in the surf : )

One canister? Okay, you always find strange stuff in the ocean. Three? Weird???

Jun 28, 2017 at 9:16 am #3475978

DAN-Y
BPL Member

@zelph2

So that’s where they all wind up eventually.

Jun 28, 2017 at 9:24 am #3475981

Ben H.
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@bzhayes
Locale: No. Alabama

I’m completely baffled by this post… Dan, can you provide maybe a bit of context?

Jun 28, 2017 at 11:21 am #3476012

Cameron M
BPL Member

@cameronm-aka-backstroke
Locale: Los Angeles

Jun 28, 2017 at 11:49 am #3476016

Ken Thompson
BPL Member

@here
Locale: Right there

Surfing the net

Jun 28, 2017 at 11:53 am #3476018

Cole B
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@cole-b
Locale: The Edge of the Linville Gorge

nm

Jun 28, 2017 at 3:38 pm #3476082

DAN-Y
BPL Member

@zelph2

I thought someone may have had a story to tell of their canister being torn apart.

Let this thread go. I’m finished ;-)

Jun 28, 2017 at 8:10 pm #3476148

Pedestrian
BPL Member

@pedestrian

@idester did have a true story about Grey grey….or at least so he claimed….
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