Fun_People Archive
25 Oct
Sage advice from Backpacker Magazine

Date: Tue, 25 Oct 94 17:04:46 PDT
To: Fun_People
Subject: Sage advice from Backpacker Magazine

Forwarded-by: bostic@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic)
Forwarded-by: cate3@netcom.com (Henry Cate)

How to tell the species of bear you are looking at:

Go over to him, and kick him in the behind.  Run up a nearby
tree.  If he climbs the tree and eats you, he's a black bear.
If he knocks the tree down and eats you, he's a grizzly.

		--  October 1990 Backpacker Magazine

© 1994 Peter Langston