Boondocking in bear country?
I'm not too worried about bears in general. My new workplace is an hour drive on a logging road from the nearest main road. Not many go there, or pass through there, just enough to keep the logging road from growing in. I saw one bear last year and he/she ran off when we approached with the ATVs, but judging by the landlines on the road there is many more of them. Te sound of the ATV I think kept them at bay.
With these bears not very used to humans I'm sort of wondering if maybe they don't know any better, and the last thing I want to do is wake up to one climbing in my window, or come back to the site to learn that a bear had helped itself to my food and is now trying to figure out which bed it should sleep in Goldilocks style.
My main concern is food, cooking, and the cleanup after-- anything that i might miss that might make my camper new and exciting. I have a small Coleman camp stove small enough to bring in the camper after use. I read that cleaning a grill and double bagging it, then spraying the bag with ammonia is a good deterrent, but after 10 hours in the field I don't think I want to spend that much time cleaning a grill. And what do you clean it with? If it's inside the camper is it going to be a problem? And what do you do with leftover food and garbage, how do you usually store it? Should I mark my territory and spray the camper outside or perimeter of camp site with ammonia?
With these bears not very used to humans I'm sort of wondering if maybe they don't know any better, and the last thing I want to do is wake up to one climbing in my window, or come back to the site to learn that a bear had helped itself to my food and is now trying to figure out which bed it should sleep in Goldilocks style.
My main concern is food, cooking, and the cleanup after-- anything that i might miss that might make my camper new and exciting. I have a small Coleman camp stove small enough to bring in the camper after use. I read that cleaning a grill and double bagging it, then spraying the bag with ammonia is a good deterrent, but after 10 hours in the field I don't think I want to spend that much time cleaning a grill. And what do you clean it with? If it's inside the camper is it going to be a problem? And what do you do with leftover food and garbage, how do you usually store it? Should I mark my territory and spray the camper outside or perimeter of camp site with ammonia?
