Heather, myself, and Cathie pulling our best "Charlie's Angels" pose with our bear spray. Bear spray is a pepper spray that can deliver a 35 second stream of spray to distract and give it enough discomfort so you can flee the scene without permanently harming it. You have to be careful though as we heard a story about the person who needed it, sprayed it at the bear, and then caught it himself as the wind blew it right back into his face. I can only imagine what that looked like--the bear probably walked off laughing as this person dropped to his knees screaming and rolling in discomfort.