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Originally Posted by jeff parker
I don't think feral hogs or javelinas are anything to worry about. Hogs do get big enough to do some damage, but they tend to run away. Javelinas don't see too well and when spooked may run towards you. It's because they're not exactly sure where you are, they are just running helter skelter.
If you want something to worry about it's other people way, way before animals. The second most dangerous animal is dogs, feral and otherwise.
I don't think we really have any backcountry east of the Pecos. You are never very far from roads and houses.
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oh- i agree. other people are very, very scary
I tend to avoid them at all cost... no offense, of course... I'm sure you are all very nice people
but if I meet you on the trail, and I see you before you see me, I'm likely to duck off somewhere if I think I can get away with it.
one encounter I had with feral pigs though- one chose to run generally towards someone I was working with - there was a large group of us, and we were spread up (surveying for caves) and I think it couldn't decide which way to go...