"rw" wrote in message
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Tom Nakashima wrote:
Anyone ever have to use it? Does it actually work?
Seems to me that would really ****-off a bear.
http://www.tbotech.com/bearspray.htm
-tom

Our Alaska outfitter (Papa Bear out of Bethel) supplies bear spray. If you
don't use it you don't pay for it. You are not allowed to carry it on an
airplane, even in checked baggage. (You are allowed to carry up to 4oz. of
pepper spray in checked baggage, but bear spray products are larger than
that.)

Last year I took a hand gun. This year I'm not going to bother. Check on
whether bears are hunted in the area you're visiting. If they are they'll
probably be afraid of people.

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Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

I'll be using the same outfitter, (Papa Bear Adventures out of
Bethel)...I'll talk to Steve about it.
thanks,
-tom