Yeah I'm in Eastern Canada. Winter's can get pretty wild here, but there's no native wildlife that poses any significant harm to us.
Still don't know just how much it's actually worth it, but I've never been stung by a scorpion or worried about dangerous snakes/bears/cougars or anything while hiking or biking either.
Eastern as well. I visited BC and had 4 bear sighting in a week, including a very close encounter on a public trail with 2 bears being about 10ft in front of me and they were gigantic. I had like a weird trauma from it and really couldn't chill for then rest of my vacation.
It's such a relief to hike and not be paranoid about predators, I'll take that trade off over no mountains even though predator attacks are rare... Give me peace of mind.
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u/PurpleK00lA1d Jul 25 '22
Yeah I'm in Eastern Canada. Winter's can get pretty wild here, but there's no native wildlife that poses any significant harm to us.
Still don't know just how much it's actually worth it, but I've never been stung by a scorpion or worried about dangerous snakes/bears/cougars or anything while hiking or biking either.