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Scary smart animals.

We were camping on Knife lake in the BWCA. Woke up one morning and there was a bear swinging in circles from our food ruck sack.

I enjoyed watching this video I found myself rooting for the Bears thanks for sharing

This bear has clearly done this before and gotten food.

Thank you sharing this. Everyone should experience a week in the boundary waters here and there.

The Knife Lake bears have a long tradition going back at least 20 years. They will associate any pack hanging in a tree with food and go after it. I have witnessed a bear chewing through the branch until it snapped and dropped the food pack to the ground. And if you have an encounter like this it doesn't mean that you are doing anything wrong. If a bear is successful once it will continue to hit that spot every day for well over a month before it gives up and moves on.

Thanks for sharing your experience

What an awesome video. Thanks for sharing. Looks like you had fantastic weather to go along with the beautiful scenery. Cool music made these old feet dance. :-)

Black bears are very timid. If you yell at them and throw stuff they generally run away. They are scared of people. Keep a canoe ready to jump into just in case these bears are the exception!

Got to LOVE the little cub near the end trying to HELP mom with the harness.....using it's little paw, just like mom.😇 I Love bears..!!

That was incredibly Enjoyable to watch..lol. No disrespect to your Food......but I was kind of ROOTING for the momma bear. Cheers and thanks for sharing.

i know that a bear can smell food under water (even with a current). i have seen them do it on bear documentaries. they came out of hibernation and the sow fumbled around along the shoreline until it sniffed out a dead fish that was more than a few feet under the surface and she just stuck her head way down there and came up with it in its mouth. a good reminder to never think you can keep a snack or two in the tent. i am guilty but eventually you wont get away with it.

a bear has an incredible olfactory sense. if you handled food at all and then sealed it the bear can still smell the residual food on the outside of the barrel. i am not a hunter anymore but as a kid i hunted with my dad who had a reputation for being the best hunter around. deer and bear both have this ability. consider that dogs are trained to find human bodies ON THE BOTTOM of a body of water. they do it successfully using their olfactory sense. you can only hope to keep it in a place that a clever bear can not get to it. pretty incredible though.

This bear had been raiding campsites in this area of the Boundary Waters for months and had learned from previous experience how to pull a hanging foodpack out of the trees. That was obvious when she arrived at our campsite, stopped under the barrel and evaluated both ends of the rope before deciding which one to attack first. The top of the barrel seals very tight and everything in it was vacuum sealed so the smell was less of an issue than the prior success of a habituated bear.

This was in our campsite.

Was that bear jar not air-tight? How did the bear know to go after it? I just ask because they normally do this when they smell food.

how close was this to your camp?

We were within a days travel of our vehicle so we could have gotten out if they had gotten all of our food.

What would you have done if it were successful in stealing your food?

I used a 78" Rokkaku kite which proved to be very stable.

they hang their food up in trees so the bears won't get it. Thats funny.

Seems north america is just infested with black bears.

BEAUTIFUL! GOOD WORK

Very well documented. Just out of curiosity, did you think about trying to scare her away, to hopefully discourage her (and her quick-learning cubs) from being a "problem bear?"

Man, been on that lake twice in '05 and '07 and didn't see any wild animals. Great footage though!

So ingenious: shame they didnt get any food for all that work

Lovely steady view - looks like a great day to be sailing!

Did this very trip Allenwater Bridge to Wabakimi Lake and down to Caribou Lake in 1981 - beautiful Ontario wilderness!

This just reinforced my theory--that the barrels keep the smells sealed in. If they can't smell the food, they ignore the barrel. On my last trip, I used a bike cable lock to secure my barrel to a tree--just to be sure no bears would haul it away during the night. I think I will forego hanging from now on.

This must have been the same black bear and cubs that came to our camp in mid August. Luckily we scared them off before they did any mischief and we moved the next day. We heard from other campers in the area that these bears had been coming into camps up and down the sites on Knife Lake. One note on the video is that it would have been kind of funny to see it get sling-shotted some how by the rope!

these bears are smart

Did this trip in Sep/1981 with my childhood friend (now deceased) he nearly drowned when our canoe wrapped around a rock on the Allenwater River...but we still had a great time. Will do it again one day. Thanks for the memories.

Your kayak looks like it is ideal for some of the rivers in the Brooks Range - lightweight, compact and can carry a load. The volume of gear and food that you take depends on how long you plan on being in the wilderness. Your gear (sleeper, tent, cooker, etc) will be about the same size for any trip but your food volume increases for longer trips. If you have lightweight, compact gear then I think you should have enough room left to pack food for a 2 week trip. I wish you the best of luck.

hi, i'm from Slovakia, Europe and i would like to go to alaska this summer. my plan is to find some river in brooks range and paddle on it. i' ve got inflantable kayak innova safai. The problem is that i can take just about 50liter bag with me in this kayak. what do u think about this? is this space enough to survive in alaska. if u don't have an idea about that space, it is space for a sleeper, tent, cooker, clothes and some food. sorry for my poor english and my stupid question.

My Pakboat is a 170 and I purchased the larger size for extended remote trips without resupply. The two features that I especially like are the portability and the way it handles in rapids. I've taken it on trains, planes and transported it in the back seat of my car. In rapids the canoe twists with the waves and the paddlers tend to stay more vertical than in a hardshell canoe. I feel much more stable and confident running rapids in my Pakboat than I do in any other canoe.

THANKS FOR THE SLIDESHOW

What a great place whitewater lake is, we fished thee for a week and it really was one of the most beautiful places i have ever been

We saw black bears, loons, eagles, beaver but weren't fortunate to see any caribou, moose or wolves.

PARADISE! I'm SSOO envious! The best I can do for now - due to proximity - is the Adirondacks. And I don't knock it at all - the Adirondacks are SPAECTACULAR too. I just LOVE the idea of being in DEEP, REMOTE BACKCOUNTRY! Did you see wildlife?