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And last, SierraNevada wrote:

> In Alaska they can positively ID Grizzly scat on the trail because it has those little (bear) bells buried in it. <

Yes, and it smells like pepper spray, too.

As Laura expressed so eloquently in a unrelated topic:

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OMG, I'm crying...

Last time I camped at Outpost Camp, I put my bear canister up against a large tree just on the other side of the trail that passes through there and buried it with medium size rocks. Not sure if that's necessary, but that's what we did. Another bear-repellant trick that others have used for car protection at the Portal is to put a series of spaced-out mothballs (this is not mothballs on drugs) along the perimeter of the top edge of your vehicle. It seems that mothballs also have an unpleasant smell to bears (and us).

CaT

If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracle of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.
- Lyndon Johnson, on signing the Wilderness Act into law (1964)