You’ve probably heard the one about the National Park hikers who carried pepper spray and wore jingle bells in bear country. The next day they were missing and bear scat was discovered that smelled like pepper and had little bells in it...
>>>> bear scat was discovered that smelled like pepper and had little bells in it... <<<<
Ha ha, yes, there are many variants of that one.
“The dinner bells are for a serving of peppered hiker” etc.
A friend of mine went backpacking in Banff some years ago and came back with a whole bunch of bear attack humor like that.
I spent some time in Denali and would NEVER go backpacking there either, I just don’t understand the appeal. My black bear encounters in the northeast USA and the US Rockies have been quite enough of a thrill, thank you very much.