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Re: What would you do?
Reply #30 - Aug 20th, 2010 at 1:37pm
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Burn it.  I tend to burn all food smelly things.  If I'm not having a fire that day then I'll ziplock it all up and burn when I can.  Tinfoil burns, just don't breathe the fumes.

The skin is the best part when cooked crispy.
  
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Re: What would you do?
Reply #31 - Aug 28th, 2010 at 7:07am
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Why tempt fate? For that matter I'll avoid sites with excess garbage strewn about as I learned the hard way what that meant. I'd stay there if I had to but if there was another option I'd surly take it.

Lakers? I burn the stink and some of the foil and pack the edges out. I got more on foil at some point but for now that has always seemed reasonable.

I have a question for those who believe they can control what a bear might smell. Especially the one trip portage types. Do you pack your food or anything cooking related with anything tent related? It occurs to me this could be a trick question. That's not my intent. It's a legit question.

FWIW - if you fish, and catch/clean/cook fish (especially lakers), you're gonna smell like fish. Like everything else, you just get used to it and don't notice and yes I have seen a bear stand to wind a laker being cleaned a quarter mile away. I could smell it too.
  
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Re: What would you do?
Reply #32 - Aug 29th, 2010 at 2:06am
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Well we have returned from the forbidden Bear Zone of Knife Lake and did not have any problems.  We did see bears on two different occasions on our trip, in broad daylight.  One was on the top of a ridge we paddled by, and as soon as he winded us he was leaving.  The other we saw about 600 feet as the crow flies from where we were camped two nights.  I went out paddling and turned the point we were on to find a bear in the next little bay, he/it was coming down to take a drink out of the lake.  I was down wind of him so he didn't smell me and I paddled up nearly to him, maybe 30 feet away.  He was suspicious but still didn't really know what I was and wasn't scared of me,  I sat in my kayak and yelled at him and swung my paddle around in the air and finally splashed water at him which made him retreat about 15 feet into the brush.  Dan and Mike were at camp so I paddled back and gave them a head's up about the bear before I continued on my way.  They kept an eye on the food packs and had a sling and pile of rocks for ammunition but the bear never approached the camp.  36 hours later we were packing in the morning to leave and I kept hearing a large thing in the brush around camp and saw trees moving un-naturally.  I never saw what it was but think it was the bear, waiting for us to leave so it could come in and investigate the campsite.
Our last evening out we camped near the Birch Lake portage drop-off for the tows from Moose Lake.  A C.O. and a DNR fellow stopped to check our permits, etc. (got a ticket for improperly licensed boats  Undecided)  The DNR guy said Ensign Lake has had several bad bear reports recently.
  
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Re: What would you do?
Reply #33 - Aug 31st, 2010 at 12:17am
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intrepid_camper wrote on Aug 29th, 2010 at 2:06am:
.    A C.O. and a DNR fellow stopped to check our permits, etc. (got a ticket for improperly licensed boats  Undecided)  The DNR guy said Ensign Lake has had several bad bear reports recently.



I've modified my origional post to a form of question rather than an assumption.... Cheesy .....

:question...what form of improper licenseing was the  (naughty}watercraft displaying  :question

and , I take it that a MN. DNR game warden and an Onterio MNR C.O. were conducting international border sharing enforcement, as I,ve seen done a few times in the past  :question
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Re: What would you do?
Reply #34 - Aug 31st, 2010 at 2:59am
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What I bring in I pack out, didn't even have a fire on the last trip. I also check the bear reports when I PU permit. Hanging the food pack more and more-the pulley from the local sail shop makes easy work of it...maybe the video is doing trick, but I suppose it could be all the mice and....even saw a bear on the last trip, better than smelling one Wink How goes the battle Riversend?
  
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Reply #35 - Aug 31st, 2010 at 3:54pm
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We were using three kayaks from Spring Creek where Dan works...used previously and for sale.  He picked them up the day before we left and didn't look at the tags on them, so some were outdated and some didn't have any tags.  It was our fault.  Both the DNR and CO were USA.  They were kind to us but couldn't overlook the problem completely.
We always hang our pack and if we can't we tie it to a tree trunk with two separate ropes.  I use sailboat pulleys too.
  
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