Re: [Paddlewise] stowing food & big critters

From: Mark Zen <canoeist_at_netbox.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:28:24 +0000
At 14:36 11/22/99 -0800, Jerry Hawkins wrote:
>
>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.

better that than the crap out of my shorts ;-) we took all precautions when in
grizzly country, and never saw one ... mixed feelings about that!!

mark

"We make a living by what we get, 
but we make a life by what we give."
--Winston Churchill

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