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Originally Posted by Wormius
Is there any studies on effectiveness of bear spray? Anecdotally, I don’t think I have read about any attacks where bear spray was deployed and the bear attacked.
I prefer to still hike with at least one other person. I feel some comfort in knowing that if anything happened somebody could get help. My biggest paranoia is losing my car keys on the trail.
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I locked our car keys in our trunk of our Mazda 3 at the Ribbon Falls trail head after our hike, with our backpacks of food in the car of course. Luckily we had friends with us and we hung out in their vehicle while we waited for assistance. Unfortunately the Mazda 3 once unlocked has the alarm go off, which stops the trunk from opening and the latch to flip down the back seats is in the trunk itself. That was nice to learn 1.5 hours after AMA showed up. Luckily there is service there so we were able to youtube how to hit the latch from the backseat.
Hiking solo is a great and terrifying experience all at the same time if the trail isn't busy at all.
