If It Makes You Feel Better

By Rocky Thompson on September 1st, 2006

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March fearlessly into the backcountry with the Bear Bell pinned to your shirt. Go ahead and sleep in bacon grease if you want to—anyone with half a brain will tell you the man-eater bears are terrified of bells. It’s because mankind has science that we’ve been able to find this one weakness and exploit it.

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