Bear Mauling Denali Highway

naturist wrote:
Hey, while we're on the subject of bears, if you are going camping in bear country, USE THE FLIPPING BEAR BOXES or learn how to stow your food in the trees.

I'm camp hosting in May in a National Forest Service campground in the Blue Ridge Mountains, just like I did last year, and you wouldn't believe the people who simply do not believe a bear would bother their tent, their campsite, their cooler. Be safe, don't feed the bears. And save yourself the several hundred dollar fine for leaving food around your campsite where the bears can get it.

While I agree with you, I don't remember ever seeing a bear box in Alaska.

People need to understand that if you're hanging your food, do so a couple of hundred yards, a long way, from camp. Otherwise you just have a very frustrated bear in camp. In real bear country you set up a separate cook camp a hundred yards or more from sleep camp.