Re: New to Tent Camping, Worried About Widlife Threat, Need Advice
The folks who play it real safe like Hogsnapper suggest eating at a location remote from camp. That is probably good advice, but for me, not practical. The campfire and the table become the center of the camp so cooking and eating somewhere else would just be too much hassle.
I think the right way to go about it is to keep camp clean - and especially clean of all food including food spills if you can. After dinner, clean up - for me that means burning the paper plates and bowls. The cook pots should absolutely be cleaned away from camp. I put the cleaned cook tools and pots on top of the table and upside down.
I hang my food on the outskirts of camp and on the opposite side of camp from my tent. I imagine where I would like to have the food bag hanging in case a bear came into camp standing on it's hind legs trying to get a better wiff. I would like to be able to look outside the door of my tent and see the bear far enough away that it is not cause for alarm.
The biggest problem is always chipmunks who will drill holes in backpacks to get to half a peanut that escaped your gorp bag.
Originally posted by Brandon
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I think the right way to go about it is to keep camp clean - and especially clean of all food including food spills if you can. After dinner, clean up - for me that means burning the paper plates and bowls. The cook pots should absolutely be cleaned away from camp. I put the cleaned cook tools and pots on top of the table and upside down.
I hang my food on the outskirts of camp and on the opposite side of camp from my tent. I imagine where I would like to have the food bag hanging in case a bear came into camp standing on it's hind legs trying to get a better wiff. I would like to be able to look outside the door of my tent and see the bear far enough away that it is not cause for alarm.
The biggest problem is always chipmunks who will drill holes in backpacks to get to half a peanut that escaped your gorp bag.
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