Since we got to Jackson, everyone has been spooking us about the danger of bears in the wild. Enough I should say so we were ready to consider buying some bear spray, touted to be a powerful weapon against menacing bears that we might meet at some corner of a trail. This bear spray is not your pocket mace, but the most powerful disabling agent allowed by the EPA. It's in fact as big as a small fire extinguisher and can neutralize a big, bad bear, some 30 feet away.
Since we didn't want to carry any superfluous weight while hiking, we passed on the opportunity to disable such mean bears and simply took a chance. We were well advised; these couple of days might have been when the worst bears took their vacation. We saw herds of marmots, some pronged antelopes, a couple of elks a bald eagle and a friendly, huge crow. That was all for our dose of wildlife, but alas, no bear ready to be sprayed...
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