>From: Jerry Hawkins <jhawkins_at_cisco.com> > >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. < When we were at Ross lake we had arrived at our campsite and were hauling gear up from the kayaks. I was hungry and had snagged a bag of peanuts out of the bear cannister and was happily munching away. Julie yelled that she needed help. I set the bag of nuts on the picnic table and walked down to the kayaks helped her and we walked back up. Total elapsed time: 5 minutes tops. My bag was missing. Julie laughed and pointed under the table. A ground squirrel had dragged the plastic bag off the table, gnawed through it and was eating nuts. He promptly ran, but he had succeeded in getting a few nuts. Lesson learned, _never_ leave food unattended. Personally I like bear cannisters. I don't have to worry about finding a suitable hanging spot, spending time hoisting and lowering, and worrying that I have it right. Mel --- There are three types of people, those who can count and those who can't. --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- Share what you know. Learn what you don't. *************************************************************************** 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 Tue Nov 23 1999 - 06:10:52 PST
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