ROL wrote:The last backcountry bear I saw was a huge cinamon colored black swimming across one of the upper Dusy Basin Lakes, in 2003. I reported it to a ranger when he stopped me on the trail out - to check my bear cannister .
An old Sierra Club mentor once told me many years ago that he would not eat the ripe currents because there wasn't enough food for the bears in the Sierra.
Never been stopped and checked by a ranger....what are they checking your canister for?