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Originally Posted by arctictraveller
The arcticle had the following advice:
How to avoid a bear attack:
- Be cautious
- Keep your food in a cooler or a bear-proof container
- NEVER keep food in your tent
KEEP YOUR FOOD IN A COOLER???? Obvously, who ever wrote that has never had a bear in his camp. Do they think a cooler will keep a bear out of your food? Pretty silly.
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Yeah I read that
. I watched a group of dummies do the same thing at Tenaya Lake walk-in camp in YNP...I asked how they'd been gettin away with leaving it out and they said bears can't smell through an ice chest. Bear came in that night and it sounded like someone driving a car into a dumpster over and over. Stuff was scattered for more than 500 feet.
Even though
I think my Yeti coolers are rated as griz proof, my guess is most national parks with bears would have specific rules about outside storage and probably frown on leaving even those types out overnight.