 Poster: A snowHead
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The Canadian resort of Lake Louise is considering encircling its ski area with a 10km electric fence to keep out grizzly bears. The plans are opposed by people who like to see wildlife roaming free in the mountains.
This report from Cnews (Canoe)
Is this an unjustified bear scare? (a grizzly apparently injured some tourists back in 1995) Would you take the risk of skiing Lake Louise without the electric fence?
Please bear all.
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Wed 22-09-04 18:22; edited 1 time in total
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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David, the bears have every right to be there. It is their natural habitat after all. If they put up an electric fence I'll refuse to ski there ever again!!!! Poor teddies!!!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Ahh put them in a zoo! Its bad enough with trees to avoid when skiing, let alone bears!
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Well, if Grizzly Adams can deal with them, so can we! Let the bears roam, I say!
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Ought to add, LL's summer tourism relies a lot (the ski hill part) on the chairlift up to Eagle Lodge and watching the effing bears. Sorry, this idea has gotten my quite riled!
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Alexandra, i agree. Rediculious propsal. Mountains are about nature, and it is the bears natural habitat. All these communities have to have bear safety schemes, but enclosing it is too far.
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Only if they're on a snowboard 
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Alexandra, i quite agree. What a terrible idea.
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I'm adding my 2 cents worth. LEAVE THE BEARS ALONE.
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I recently came across this photo, it clearly shows that bears are actually a bonus to ski resorts and get on extremely well with skiers and have done for some time, the picture was taken in 1966 and shows my mother in, surprise surprise Wengen
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You're okay as long as you keep an eye on your picnic basket.
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Which is your mother?
(sorry, DGO)
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You know it makes sense.
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David, you've got to admit its an EPIC photo.
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Poster: A snowHead
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David, do you think that could be an escapee from JWAZ?
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No, I think it escaped from C&A.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Thats cruel - no one should be forced to wear a one piece anymore.
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That's no monkey. It's Michael Jackson when he was black
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Leave the bears free!
The barking ones too!!!
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I'd be surprised if the risk of injury or death from bear-attack registered on the same scale as other skiing hazards. I bet the risk of skiing into the electric fence would be greater. My vote is definitely for the bears!
(BTW, I've had a close encounter with a bear (albeit black, not grizzly) on Mt. Rainier in Washington State, and seem to have lived to tell the tale.)
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Bears have been part of life in Yosemite and other parks in the US for long enough that there has been time to formulate policies that work and still allow bears themselves to be part of the attraction of the park.
Unless they have some stronger reason than inconvenience to tourists, I agree that the electric fence should be kept out of Banff. Until the highway is twinned and a reasonable crossing provided.
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Comprex, how do you explain those policies to the bears, though?
My vote is to leave the bears alone. I can't believe nadenoodlee wanted to put them into a zoo. I hate zoos, especially for large animals.
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I'm all for letting the bears roam if anything it should make me ski faster 
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Cedric, haven't heard from you in a time.
No point explaining an open door policy to bears, Barking or otherwise; they'll come in anyhow.
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Leave those bears alone. It makes skiing a lot more exciting when you have a bear chasing you down the piste!! 
No seriously, why do human beings think they have the right to keep animals away from places that they have roamed in for more years than can be counted.
It is there land as much as ours.
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| sparish wrote: |
| We experienced some rather fat monkeys at the restaurant that day. |
It's always best to order them lean, or at any rate well done 
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| It makes skiing a lot more exciting when you have a bear chasing you down the piste!! |
Actually the official advice is always to flee downhill from a bear: their front legs can't bear (groan) the weight of running downhill very easily, but they're much more nimble than a human going uphill.
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You know it makes sense.
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laundryman - unless the bears on skis? 
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I think if I tried to run away from a bear going up hill I would probably have a heart attack and they would have a very easy meal!!!!!!
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Poster: A snowHead
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I forgot to add that in the photo above the large bear on the right is wearing ski boots though they are not very clear in this image
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According to Libération, "Fat Albert" has struck again.
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DENVER - A paraplegic Aspen Colorado local had to wait helplessly in his bedroom for a couple of hours while a 230 kg brown bear, nicknamed Fat Albert, helped itself to everything edible in the man's kitchen.
"I had two kilos of chocolate. It ate the lot. War is declared", complained Tom Isaac, following the incident which took place on September 20th.
"I heard everything being smashed up", he went on, telling of his fear that the animal might find its way into his bedroom. Tom has been paralysed ever since a skiing accident in the 1980s.
Not the first time "Fat Albert" has dropped in. The bear has visited Tom a good half-dozen times. "The very next day the Rangers found the bear having a sleep in my dining-room", added Isaac.
At this time of year the bears 'overeat' to fatten themselves up for hibernation, and this sometimes leads to them breaking into houses in the search for food.
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Whilst tree skking in LL I found it to be quite an incentive to stay upright, with the thought that I might wake up a hungry bear in a bad mood.
It would be a sad day if the bears were forced away. There's no way that they would come out of hibernation during the height of the LL ski season its way too cold.
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Not even if a group of skiers skied over the bear's house/lair/structure of twigs not string enough to support the weight of a skier?
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Even more incentive for skiers to stay fit
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Waking one up on your own could be a problem, however, I wouldn't be too worried if I was in a group as I'd make sure I wasn't the slowest so that someone else gets munched 
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if a group of skiers skied over the bear's house/lair/structure of twigs not strong enough to support the weight of a skier?
Wow, clever bears if they're setting up those sort of traps. They'll be skiing next and then there really is a problem.
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NickW,
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Wow, clever bears if they're setting up those sort of traps. They'll be skiing next and then there really is a problem
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see the picture above taken in 1966, the bear on the right was wearing ski boots even then
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