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Will,

Thank you for your support. Only you showed the sensitivity and empathy with my comments. My comments in no way were meant to denigrate Casey, but to reconcile in my mind how even when we call ourselves “experts,” we still can make a “multiplicity” of mistakes in our skilled profession similar to that of a neophyte.

The comments by James, Joseph, and I2survive disappoint me deeply. We all need individuals like you, Will Sanders, with us on the trail in the backcountry who exhibit emotional discipline and who are able to stay focus on the problem at hand, able to show empathy and a level of sensitivity calling for us to work together as a team while in the wilderness and that we can "agree to disagree," if necessary, without denigrating one another’s character.

I have little doubt, Will S, that you and I could work through issues that confront us in the wilderness; but I never would start out on a backcountry trip with individuals whose emotions take control of them resulting in their making denigrating comments of others' character and with them "name calling."

I do not call myself a bear expert, or am I a bear biologist. I have, though, spent (by my calculation) over 1,000 hours studying bear behaviors, reading books by the experts such as Stephen Herrero and other bear biologists, reading various journal articles and putting what I have read and learned into traveling solo in bear country in Canada and Alaska. Robert J. Smith is correct to recommend “Bear Attacks: Their Causes and Avoidance,” by Stephen Herrero. That book is considered one of the better books on the subject of bear behavior and techniques to employ for avoidance of an attack.

Gretchen McLaughlin's comment has high merit, for all these articles published by the good magazine, Backpacker, are educational, informative and reading these articles can save one’s life in the backcountry.

We all make mistakes in the backcountry from time to time. I guess what surprised me about reading Casey’s article is how even an "expert" can make a series, a multiplicity of mistakes together back-to-back and even after all the didactic training and after all the studying, he failed to employ what he learned. That was the part that troubled me, and I am certain it troubled Casey, too. It happened, though, and as you said eloquently Will, “Let it go at that….”. It is that level of behavioral emotional discipline exhibited by you, Will, that would make me want to have "you" along with me in the backcountry.

Has Jerry D made mistakes in the backcountry? Certainly. If it were not for the reading of articles at sites like these, for the studying of articles and books on the various subjects I would not be here today to write these words. But I am, because I learn from it all and from all of you.

Below is a blog site that described one of my foolish mistakes made on the trail. So yes, we all make them from time to time, and we just hope that we learn from them.

Jerry W Doyle
Alexandria, LA

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Give Jerry a break, will you? I like Casey Anderson too. We really need to learn basic civility again. Casey did make mistakes, but as he said. when that bear runs at you, you probably will as well. Conversation is conversation. Let it go at that.
Just saying...

Hey Jerry anybody ever call you a big mouthed yahoo or a self serving righteous jerk, or maybe just a DICK!!

Well Jerry, way to brag about yourself while cutting a man down! All he is trying to do is help everyone stay safe while in the wilderness. As a man who doesn't make mistakes I'm sure you won't commit the error of thinking you are not a dick.
Joseph Volpe
Asheville, NC

Thanks,Casey, for being so candid about your grizzly misadventure. I have learned a lot from this. My husband and I are beginners on this trek. You may have saved our lives.

I live in New Jersey and our state has LOTS of black bear especially near the NJ/PA North Western border area. Whenever I hike I always bring Bear Spray.

An excellent reference book on bears is:
"Bear Attacks: The Causes and Avoidance" by Steven Herrera.

l2survive i survive the everest i can almost survive anything

Casey,

In full deference to your position as a bear expert, I am puzzled over how you made so many mistakes in this outing with your dad that placed both your lives in danger.

As a backpacker and day hiker in bear country (Alaska, Canada, Montana), I don’t consider myself necessarily a bear expert, but I certainly am no neophyte when it comes to bear avoidance techniques and grizzly encounters.

Candidly, I have empathy with the adrenaline rush you two felt when you encountered the bear. I have had such adrenaline rushes that moved me to a desire of circumventing safety rules that would leave me vulnerable to a bear attack. Reality, thank heavens, prevailed and reason took hold causing me to leave the scene.

I am even more puzzled why you placed not only yourself in such a vulnerable position, but your father who relinquished his full trust in your skills of bear avoidance techniques.

I don’t mean to sound as critical perhaps as how all my words may read, but you didn’t make just one mistake, but you made a series of mistakes.

Hopefully your message will leave an indelible impression on yourself and all who read your story that safety and common sense "must" prevail during bear encounters, or else all the bear avoidance techniques in the rules book mean "nothing."

Jerry W Doyle
Alexandria, LA