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. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Nov 22 1999 - 14:39:48 PST
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