Hint, this thread is STILL about the Appalachian Trail,
I bagged a pair of peaks (just over 10 miles) today with a good portion of it on the AT (branched off at one point to go up the Flume Slide but looped back on).
Between the two, only an idiot would chose a firearm over the spray
There has big jump in "nuisance bear" issues at/around the Liberty Spring Tentsite. I guess my pard and I can both be labelled as idiots based on what we were carrying. I don't worry much about bears, though.....
George