Gas grill storage in bear country
Not sure if this is the best forum for this post but here goes. We travel in a truck camper with limited inside storage. We usually keep our propane grill in a Rubbermaid box stored on our receiver hi...
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Sold the place in God's Country (AK) last fall. :(
Until we did, we had (in the preceding 24 months):
- 6 or so instances of Black Bears using our deck as a shortcut from the creek to the vacant area running through the subdivision;
- 2 or so instances of Brown Bears running through
- 1 (very memorable) instance where Momma bear killed a moose calf in the yard and decided that our driveway looked like a dining room table, so she drug the calf into the driveway (blocking it for an hour or so) and had breakfast with her two cubs.
Relevance? We had a gas grill and a real grill (stick-burner) on the aforementioned back deck. I always made a point to burn either grill hot for 30 minutes or so after cooking for ease of cleaning
....and we never had a bear problem. We typically covered the grills with a rain cover.
Until we did, we had (in the preceding 24 months):
- 6 or so instances of Black Bears using our deck as a shortcut from the creek to the vacant area running through the subdivision;
- 2 or so instances of Brown Bears running through
- 1 (very memorable) instance where Momma bear killed a moose calf in the yard and decided that our driveway looked like a dining room table, so she drug the calf into the driveway (blocking it for an hour or so) and had breakfast with her two cubs.
Relevance? We had a gas grill and a real grill (stick-burner) on the aforementioned back deck. I always made a point to burn either grill hot for 30 minutes or so after cooking for ease of cleaning
....and we never had a bear problem. We typically covered the grills with a rain cover.
