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My plan is to buy two canisters, and use the chest holsters. Since we're likely to not use them, I plan on donating them to the park when we leave. They give them out to trail crews and the like.

You might want to keep them and mail back home for use in BW/Q ?
With more and more people using the park, at least the BW, and the black bear population on the rise, it might come in handy someday.


Real bear spray is formulated much stronger that military grade pepper spray made for use on us weak little humans.
When you go to Canada and have pepper spray with you, it better be labeled for Bear/Animal defense ONLY, not personal defense.
Check out the different chemical formulations on the sites that sell bear spray and you can see there not all the same.
I mentioned UDAP, because that product is used by US forest crews/rangers, so you know it's good.


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I'm not particularly worried about the bears, although the fact that Mrs. ML is a faster runner than me gives me pause to reflect  Shocked  Grin

Hoepfully you can overcome that handicap by being a faster tree climber ;D