First time camping in bear country in popup.
We're heading to RMNP in 2 weeks and staying at East Portal campground in a popup for 3 nights.(Then down to Dillon lake for 2 nights then down to lake Pueblo for a night) I have a couple questions co...
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seaeagle2 wrote:
In some areas the bears get in cars even if they're locked. They have issues like someone left a box of donuts in a black Civic. For the next week, every black Civic gets broken into by the bears.
Saw a Suzuki Swift opened up like a tin can, owner left a big bag of pistachios in the vehicle, black bear decided they wanted them, put their claws at the top door seal and pulled back. Glass shatters and they can get in and grab the tasty food. Looked like this:
That same trip we had a black bear come within about a foot of our tent, no food as it was in the bear boxes and nothing scented in the tent. He was just mozying through camp. He took off like a rocket when the neighbors dog started barking, fastest I've ever seen a bear move and that includes a mother Grizzly running from a kill in Yellowstone when a big male came around.
