ADIRONDACK BEARS 
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shoeing is almost impossible. For this 
reason, I left my cabin long before 
daylight, and had the first trap set by 
seven o’clock. This first set was made 
in a big hollow hemlock log, which lay 
on a side hill next to the stump from 
which it had fallen years before. Dur¬ 
ing the winter I had had a “fisher” 
trap set away back inside of this log, 
and there were still some remains of 
a porcupine which I had used for bait. 
I threw in a honeycomb which I had 
brought with me for bait and set the 
trap in the opening, putting a log in 
front of the trap over which the bear 
would have to step. I also put a small 
bent birch stick under the pan of the 
trap to keep it from being sprung by 
small animals. In setting these traps, 
I use clamps to compress the springs. 
E’This is really the only safe way. I 
have set bear traps by cutting poles 
and using them as levers, but this old 
method is both dangerous and unsatis¬ 
factory, especially when one man is 
trapping alone. 
The second trap I carried over to the 
hogback, a mile west of the pond. 
Here I built a log pen about 2x4x6, 
roofed over with split balsam logs. 
This took the rest of the morning to 
build. I had killed a hedgehog on the 
way over from the first trap, and I 
pegged this down in the back end of 
the pen, putting another honeycomb on 
a slab of bark just inside the opening. 
The trap was placed in front of the 
entrance, fixing it the same as I had 
the first one. The pen was covered 
with spruce boughs which I let hang 
over the entrance, protecting the trap 
from snow. On the way back to camp, 
about a mile from the pond and not 
very far from the ledges, I came across 
the carcass of a deer laying on top of 
the snow. It had evidently been winter 
killed, and had been dead only a few 
days. There were many fox tracks 
around, and they had started working 
on the carcass. It was still frozen 
solid, so I took the axe and cut it in 
two, hanging both halves high in two 
spruce trees. This would be the loca¬ 
tion for my third and last “set,” and I 
was fortunate in finding the bait so 
handy. It was now late in the after¬ 
noon so I started for the cabin, after 
blazing a tree so I could locate the 
place when I came back again to set 
my last trap. 
A week later I returned to my cabin 
to set the last trap. It was snowing 
hard when I left camp with my pack, 
but the snowshoeing was somewhat 
better than before, and I made good 
time. I followed my old snowshoe tracks 
around to the first set. Here I found 
a large coon caught in the bear trap. 
Somehow he had managed to spring 
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