Re: [Paddlewise] stowing food & big critters

From: Jerry Hawkins <jhawkins_at_cisco.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 14:36:32 -0800
At 06:36 PM 11/20/1999 -0500, Vivian Oliva wrote:
>Do not keep your water in tent even at night.  Some friends last winter had
>a racoon tear up their tent at Pavilion Key looking for the water jug they
>stored in their tent.  Safest place to store food or water is inside kayak
>hatches. 

And definitely do not carefully store away all your food, except one little bag of peanuts which get left on your table.  Not unless you want a grizzly bear to smell them from all the way across a lake and come into your campsite sniffing around your tent like a 600 pound dog.  I speak from experience on this one.  Just try to clean bear snot off a nylon tent.  Just try.

jerry.


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