Good Bad & The Monkey
I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
Oh Mighty Wing
Mostly because you're Tanya-ing JK while the monkeys watch.
That, was real camping. Me and Dad and a guide. What I did for my "senior trip".
When it’s all said and done, will you have said more than you’ve done?
Yes Candice, exactly. Most of the hanging we did was from brown bears, not Grizzlies. But on my trips out west, we did that now. Bears have gotten smart and many very very remote camping areas now have bear boxes installed. These are rugged metal boxes at established backwoods campsites. Rather than hang your food, you lock it in these boxes. (Many natural areas require that you camp in established campsites.)
Awesome!
Well yea, we had wooden boxes that we hung the food in the tree with. And most of the bear we saw were black. The places we were camping weren't established camp sites. But places that the guide had picked out ahead.
I was not clear. Back in the day, we carried tools for hanging food in the trees. These were usually bags, but could have been lightweight boxes. These days, bears can get those, so the Forest Service has heavy weight boxes installed. Nothing can get into them, not even a tank. Many natural areas have designated campsites in the deep backcountry to limit impact from campers. Bushwacked campsites do far more damage to the natural country and distribute that impact more widely.