Dont store anything food related in your van. Wash all your dishes away from your site. Haul your food and garbage up in a tree with a rope at night away from your site. Ive been camping in the grand tetons where bears where breaking into backcounry campers cars in the middle of the night for food stored in a tighly lidded cooler. Good luck Emmet -----Original Message----- From: Bill Kasper [mailto:dragonlist@IPMTS.UCSC.EDU] Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 4:42 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: bears and westys
we're leaving the 3d for a three-week trip in our syncro westfalia, and i am wondering what other folk do about bears when they're in the back of beyond that happens to be bear country. our 3-year old is going to be up in the poptop... thanks! bill '87 syncro westfalia http://www.scruznet.com/~kasper/pics/westy/ |
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