Date:         Wed, 18 Jul 2001 14:03:30 -0700
Reply-To:     Bill Kasper <dragonlist@IPMTS.UCSC.EDU>
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From:         Bill Kasper <dragonlist@IPMTS.UCSC.EDU>
Subject:      Re: bears and westys
Comments: To: Emmet McGovern <webmaster@beachin.net>
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on 7/18/01 1:40 PM, Emmet McGovern at webmaster@beachin.net wrote:

> 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


so, rather than have any food in the cupboards, put it in a plastic tub with
a lid, tape it shut, and hang it?

what about any grime on the stove?  do they come after that?  do we have to
keep martha stewart clean while travelling in bear country?

thanks emmet.

bill
'87 syncro westfalia
http://www.scruznet.com/~kasper/pics/westy/