I live in a small town. My house is 30 meters away from a forest so I basically live in a forest. Yesterday I was hiking in the forest alone. The forest is not a mountain forest it is about 700 meters above sea level. Where I live winter is around the corner in in some higher places it started...

http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/01/world/americas/canada-hiker-rescue/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 A man barely made it out of the wilderness alive after a bear attack. Not because he was injured but because the bear destroyed all of his stuff. His dog didn't make it though. He's lucky to still be breathing...

I hike daily in the National Forest right by my house. anyway I've become a bear magnet. And while the first few bear sightings were exciting........I'm getting nervous, whimpy to say but I'll be honest. So I read all the info and I know that they aren't all that dangerous. These are black...