I have spent more hours than I can count hiking through grizzly country in Montana, Alberta, and the Wind River Range, and one lesson stands above all others: if your bear spray is buried in your pack, it is useless. Finding the best bear spray holsters is not about convenience. It is about whether you […]

Nothing spikes your heart rate like rounding a blind switchback and surprising a grizzly at 30 yards. I have spent the better part of three decades hiking, backpacking, and guiding in bear country across Montana, Wyoming, Alaska, and the Canadian Rockies. Over that time I have carried nearly every EPA-registered bear deterrent on the market […]