Bikes and bears

Sounds like going alone is, once again, a bad idea.

And here I am still a bit traumatized from riding over a baby bunny yesterday, right around the corner of a single track trail along a cliff. By the time I saw it, looking right at me, it was too late. It was gone today so at least it fed something.

That is a beautiful trail camera capture, btw.

“It was gone today so at least it fed something.”

Or someone?  Weren’t we talking rabbit and hare recipes a while back?

Yum. Don’t see it for sale like we use to.

If an out-of-control biker hits a bear, it seems that they could also collide with a hiker.

I too would be “extremely provoked” if this were to occur, but I am inexperienced at mauling people.

“And here I am still a bit traumatized from riding over a baby bunny yesterday…”

Well, that explains what I saw on a street corner this afternoon….

I think the bunny is right…driving OR riding. That fawn would say the same thing….

I do try and be careful .

@Craig & Ken I ate so much rabbit growing up and loved it. It’s been years now.

We have used Bluetooth speakers before while riding trails where we don’t expect to see any other people. No bears encountered with speakers, versus a few every year without. Revelate Designs (Anchorage) makes a great top tube bag that holds spray or speakers. They seem to have no effect on habituated moose though, like in Kincaid or the Hillside.

Cool.  Now my iPhone replaces carrying a 12-gauge with rifled slugs, reducing my load by 6-7 pounds.

That you see fewer bears while broadcasting makes complete sense to me.  While I might glare at folks blaring music in the backcountry, as hiker, I would rather hear you coming fast from 100 yards away than not hear you coming fast until you were 30 feet away, coming around a corner.  I was on the Resurrection Trail from Hope to Cooper Landing on a day there was an organized 100-mile trail ride (with shuttles between trailheads).  The first few pissed me off and I was on my guard for the remaining scores of bicycles.  I schlepped a lot of little plastic and metal bicycle bits off the trail that trip.