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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Ralph Cramden wrote:susan-y wrote:
Most of the "bear" places I camp do not allow soft sided rv's. Have you checked to make sure you can camp there? I'm with the bacon on your neighbor trick ;)
Sorry, but have to call you out on that statement. Please list them. Everytime somebody makes a claim to that effect in an online forum, someone asks for the specific campgrounds and never once have I seen an answer. That is other than Fishing Bridge at Yellowstone which IMO has nothing to do with bears but more to do with the contracted operator wanting to keep the lowly pop ups, tents, and hybrids away from the in crowd.
Bearphobia running rampant. My house is in bear country lol. I have found a few bear piles in the back yard over the years. I have never had one raid the garbage nor lick the gas grill though. Also one has never ripped our back door off and raided the fridge.
I, Hatchet Jack, being of sound mind and broke legs, do hereby leaveth my bear rifle to whatever finds it. It is a good rifle, and killt the bear that killt me. Anyway, I am dead. Yours truly, Hatchet Jack.
It used to be true in most of Yellowstone, and parts of Glacier from time to time. When my wife and I went to Yellowstone back in the mid 90's, there were soft side restrictions in place on some of the campgrounds.
To say that bears don't tear up cabins and cars when the opportunity presents itself is simply denial. It happens every year in the Rockies, from Canada to New Mexico, and not only when the owner has done something to tempt the bear. My brother-in-law owns a four-plex rental apartment building in the Colorado mountains, and the trash dumpster is raided 2 or 3 times a year by bears, even though it's supposedly "bear-proof".
