I saw this in a comment on a different post over on r/Ultralight. I’m not sure how the poster came across it. It is a really great talk given by this guy at an outdoor leadership training session on dealing with bears. It’s too bad you can’t see the slides. I posted this to r/backpacking and it was suggested I post it over here as well.

Anyway, it goes in to a lot of the numbers for bear encounters. He is a huge ‘carry spray’ advocate and makes me think perhaps I should be better about it as I generally only carry it if I am someplace I know will have a lot of bears. Like I carry my spray when I carry my bear can.

Also a lot of great quick summaries of different studies he has done on things like sounds and smells and how bears react. And just a huge amount of experience closely working with bears.

https://youtu.be/1KWSJ3piSfM?si=hqOTWJ-xbiolx8wX