Canoe Tripping: Quick Tip on How to Identify DANGER

You are probably wondering about how we deal with the constant dangers of the wild. Thieving chipmunks, kamikaze mosquitoes, blood sucking leeches, disease ridden ticks, rabid wolves, hungry bears, axe murders, big foot and swamp creatures just to name a few. Well, first of all, you have to clearly identify the danger.

Here's a helpful tip for bear encounters. To determine whether it is a black bear or a grizzly, take a large heavy stick, sneak up behind the bear and whack it as hard as you can on its backside. Run to the nearest tree and climb as though your life depends on it. If the bear climbs the tree to get you, it is a black bear, and if the bear simply uproots the tree to get a hold of you, it’s a grizzly.