jut posting a link to my  August 2022 trip report if anyone is interested.

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I do wonder what attracted the bear to our camp.  I believe it was just checking out the river at first, trying to sense if there were any salmon in it yet.  So it crossed to an island from which it could see our camp - bright yellow spray cover on the boat, tilted up so it was very obvious - could be the color attracted it ?   or it could be that the bear heard the alarms if it was indeed the wind and not the bear that set them off - who knows.  I asked a guy up in Fairbanks who rents Pakcanoes if he had ever heard of a bear ripping into one - he thought he had, and thought perhaps it was the smell of the hull bottom that attracted it - yet, there have been many pakcanoes and bears - Pakboats used to have a photo of muddy grizzly bear prints on the bottom of an overturned canoe, which the bear did not claw up.  Maybe it was just curiosity and a lot of fun for the bear.  It does not appear that he ever touched the food bags or the alarms would have slid off of them.  By the way, it was your idea I copied to use those alarms, from one of our posts a while ago.  I'm not certain, but I think it was a pakcanoe, in 2019 in NWT, a bear wrecked a canoe and had the two campers "treed" out on the end of a point - they had to call for rescue.  I don't expect that it will happen to me again.

mat

Good trip report! Thanks for posting that up Matt. It's a good reminder to me that repair materials are a necessity on just about any trip.