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Carry a can of bear mace. Good for scaring off bears/mountain lions, and also very effective for disabling a would-be attacker so you can get away (bear mace is a lot stronger than normal mace). It's also not as suspicious if you get stopped by a park ranger or something and you don't have to worry about the legal ramifications of shooting somebody. Even if it's rightfully in self-defense, you'll still have to go through a bunch of legal bullshit which would be made even worse by the fact that it happened in the middle of nowhere with no witnesses to vouch for you that it actually WAS self-defense.
