Cooking in Yellowstone and Grand Teton NP
We will be staying within Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks for about four weeks this summer (Fishing Bridge in Yellowstone and Colter Bay Village in Grand Teton). Both state that cooking im...
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You need to be aware that Ma Nature does not operate with any consideration whatever for your convenience.
The huge number of people who visit Yellowstone and Grand Teton each year make it completely impossible to prevent people-wildlife interaction. You WILL be camping near those critters, and if you leave stuff outside that smells like food, they will come to get it. And they will completely ruin your stuff to get at it.
What's worse is that people can get hurt in the process. Besides which, it contributes to a need to hunt down and kill some of that wildlife because they've become too enamored with raiding campsites.
So, yes, there is extra work involved in visiting these places, but they are worth it. And please, either do the extra work so you and others CAN enjoy those places, or don't go there.
The thing that attracts the bears is the SMELL of food. It is said that bears' sense of smell is to dogs, what dogs' sense of smell is to humans. But several strategies are helpful. Use a Bear Box. Put things that have touched food inside a tightly sealed airtight container, inside a sealed plastic bag. Hang stuff 15 feet in the air by a rope over a tree limb.
The huge number of people who visit Yellowstone and Grand Teton each year make it completely impossible to prevent people-wildlife interaction. You WILL be camping near those critters, and if you leave stuff outside that smells like food, they will come to get it. And they will completely ruin your stuff to get at it.
What's worse is that people can get hurt in the process. Besides which, it contributes to a need to hunt down and kill some of that wildlife because they've become too enamored with raiding campsites.
So, yes, there is extra work involved in visiting these places, but they are worth it. And please, either do the extra work so you and others CAN enjoy those places, or don't go there.
The thing that attracts the bears is the SMELL of food. It is said that bears' sense of smell is to dogs, what dogs' sense of smell is to humans. But several strategies are helpful. Use a Bear Box. Put things that have touched food inside a tightly sealed airtight container, inside a sealed plastic bag. Hang stuff 15 feet in the air by a rope over a tree limb.
