Bear bags don't work

“Check this site out to see why.
http://inukshuk.godbdigital.com/gallery/birds”

“I wish I could find a copy of the video that was taken at Lake Colden a few years ago of the bears jumping out of trees and snagging bear bags off the food cables on their way down.”

“Sweet photos! Thanks for posting that website! The pictures of the underwater portages bring it all back! I hope to get a trip set up for Quetico in 2007.”

“Wow! I knew they were acrobatic but that I ain't never seen. I guess the bears where I camp ain't as skilled or I have just been lucky.”

“It all depends on the bears. Sometimes cable systems are good enough, other times not. A few years ago, the bear at Springer figured out if he shook the cable hard enough, packs and food bags would fall off of the S-hooks they were hung on. I think they may have changed to snap hooks after that.”

“Those bears up there are desperate. The last trip I was on up there a bear scared off a family that was cooking breakfast and was eating a pancake out of the pan that was still on the stove that was on when we paddled up to retreive their stuff.”

“Wow, I have read stories like that. That's the kind of behavior that gets bears put down. Really sad, but really dangerous.”

“the whitney portal ranger station has that whole photo sequence on their counter.”

“I had a bear snag my food once. It was hung up in a tree, and along came a mother with two cubs, and she just climbed up the tree and jumped down, snagging the bag. The D ring holding the bag to the rope opened right up. Fortunately it was only the first or second night of what was to have been a 7-8 day outing. After that we took to stringing the bag between two trees.”

“We have seen a mother come through campsites with her cubs. We turn and get the F out when that happens. The bears up in Quetico do not get very big. I do not know where the photo was taken of the bear on the line, but if it was the Quetico, it is the largest bear I have ever seen up there.”