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There will be animals, large and small. Like anyplace else, they will be most prevalent from dusk to dawn with the always present opportunity to have a surprise visit. What usually works best is to want to see a bear or moose and get pictures, this almost always keeps them away...I am thinking about riding up through Sault Ste Marie and taking 17 east to Pembroke...do I need to worry about bears and moose and other large critters on the highway...neither of us much wants to wrestle a grizzly bear...if we could be heavily armed in Canada, as we are at home...is it recommended to carry bear repellent spray....
YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bear repellent/pepper spray are = to a GUN at the border. I crossed the border once with a fellow FJR rider and the Canadian Border Agent found a tiny little can of bear spray he was carrying because he was camping. It might as well have been a nuclear device from the attention he got. It took him nearly a half hour to repack his FJR and put it back together again after the agents finished with the bike. While they were taking it apart he was inside while the Agent's were retrieving his life history from the US. There was a quick crunch as the agents slammed his radar detector on the pavement and ground it to dust with their feet. On the other hand, I know several people that say they cross the border with bear/pepper spray all the time and it's never been an issue. I know people that cross the border with radar detectors (hidden from sight) and they have never had an issue. It's your choice if you want to risk Imperial Entanglements. Also, not all border crossings are equal, some are easy, some are a little more tough going into Canada; border crossings are always tougher returning into the US....is it recommended to carry bear repellent spray....
If you have a passport you probably will want to bring it along, along with a Xerox of the passport stored in a different location from the prime document.
It would be nice if some of the Frostbacks could suggest better border crossing locations -- please
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