Originally Posted by
PedalingWalrus
Musings from a bikepacking trip around Moosehead Lake:
1. Bears love to $hit on gravel roads
2. You can do 100 miles of gravel without padded shorts
3. Carried a whole smoked mackerel for 130 miles and did not eat it
Hm. Bear + aging smoked mackerel + 100mi of gravel.
Sounds like the bear caught up to you. Which explains both why you didn't eat the mackerel and why the bear did his 'business' on the road.
That story's a bit like the one where we'd hiked up into the back country, cooked on the vestibule of the tent (due to all of the mosquitoes), then ended up with no tent. Let me explain. A bad ol' cuss of a black bear came along, from the far side of the tent, and he opted to mow down everything. Chewed everything to pieces, looking for the source of the smell. Ended up with no tent, no gear, and no further reason to remain in the back country. (ie, No more 'smoked mackerel' for us.) Ah, the insanity of youth.