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To ward off an aggressive black bear, Herrero suggests making a lot of noise, banging pots and pans together, throwing sticks and rocks, and ‘running at the bear’. (Yeah, right. You first, Professor.)

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On the other hand, he then adds judiciously, these tactics could ‘merely provoke the bear’. Well, thanks.

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‘There’s nothing like a good night’s sleep and that was nothing like a good night’s sleep,’

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Probably the most famous, certainly the most written about, of all thru-hikers was Emma ‘Grandma’ Gatewood, who successfully hiked the trail twice in her late sixties despite being eccentric, poorly equipped, a tad stupid (actually very stupid, but I don’t want to seem unkind), and a danger to herself.

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Call me a tiresome old fogey, but I hate all this technology on the trail. Some AT hikers, I had read, now carry laptop computers and modems, so that they can file daily reports to their family and friends. (If you are considering doing this yourself, here’s a tip. Nobody cares that much. I’m sorry, that’s not true. Nobody cares at all.)

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And now increasingly you find people with electronic gizmos like the Enviro Monitor or wearing sensors attached by wires to their pulse points so that they look as if they’ve come to the trail straight from some sleep clinic.

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‘And God bless Allah for the mashed potatoes!’ said Katz happily and reached for the bowl for the third time.