Have a gun...

[sarduy]

who goes into the alaskan wilderness without a bazooka?

Answer:

The teenage outdoor education students

 

[SSN Vet]

once upon a time, when I was a wee tyke, I heard a wise scout master say something about "be prepared"....

sounded like a good idea to me.

 

[Diggers]

Exactly sarduy.

They didn't have a firearms because they are high school age kids who are at a "summer camp" their parents probably paid a ton of dough for.

No one is going to run a summer camp where they give untrained 17 year olds guns and send them out alone into the wilderness. Parents aren't going to send their kids there.

The problem here is the guy who runs the camp made a bad choice letting them go out alone with out an armed adult with them.

Here is a good example of bears speed of attack.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMbnmLLnsfw

 

[Cosmoline]

The problem here is the guy who runs the camp made a bad choice letting them go out alone with out an armed adult with them.

Alaska happens. Send an armed adult. Send a squad of Delta force. It doesn't matter. Every time you go out, you roll the dice. If it's not bear it's a broken leg. Or exposure. Or just plain old freezing cold water, which is a much bigger killer than bear.

 

[rbernie]

^^^^

And none of that, however true, has anything to do with THR.