Build A Bear Tent And Sleeping Bag

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That’s just a fact of backpacking in popular areas. I’ve had two interesting incidents with bears in camp…both in Wyoming. In the first one, about thirty years ago, I was sleeping with my food .

More important is cooking and eating away from where you sleep and using an odor-proof sack. It can bounce out or off of the tree in odd ways, and can snap back if you accidentally step on the cord while throwing it. It sounds like an elementary mistake, but it’s easy to do (I’ve done it) and it’s a common role-playing scenario in many wilderness first aid/responder courses.

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However, we backpack and camp in grizzly territory and this year we had our first “outside the tent” encounter with such a beast. It growled and stomped just outside our tent just as we were settling in to sleep. I peered out and said, “Get the spray.” My partner did………… and promptly sprayed me with the bear spray . During the ensuing coughing, choking, and thundering out of the tent, the bear moved a bit away . It wanted the area to itself, evidently, since it stayed close. A common strategy for dealing with bear attacks is to employ counter measures.

Curious if you’ve done any canoe tripping and if you’ve tried the “bear canoe” method? Essentially, you put food bags into the canoe, tie an anchor rock to one end of the canoe, and another rope from the same end to the shore. It’s essential that it is long enough rope that the canoe is in deep enough water that a bear could not stand up and reach in / overturn the boat. If it’s deep enough, even though bears are good swimmers, it’s very unlikely they have the treading skills to reach up and overturn the boat while treading . Honestly I think the weight issue can be a little overblown.

Will A Tent Provide Some Protection From Bears?

Hanging has been drilled into my head and on our AT thru I hung one every night except twice. Obviously, I became quite adept, but as you mentioned, there were a few bad hangs due to lack of good trees. Plus it makes it easy to lower the bag if you want to get something out of it and the raise it back up.

In most cases, critters can no longer smell your food/game bag. While I normally carry a bear resistant canister, in Yellowstone, backpackers are required to hang their food. To save weight, I left the canisters in the car. When I got to my site, there where fresh grizzly tracks in the snow and there were no bear hanging platforms like they said there would be .

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If you own a BearVault , just be sure that the lid is screwed on fully . If it’s on partially and the threads slip, you won’t be able to access your food either. I have a Superior Wilderness Designs lunch sack and it is the bee’s knees.

Instead of trying to tie up a rock I place some small rocks in my stove bag and attach it to the end of the rope. No problems but I never have bacon etc that create amazing smells for all. I also lower it only to eat and then back up it goes with the bag of garbage included. The reason I ask is because I think many people assume their bear bag “worked” because their food was still their in the morning. But, in fact, their hang was never tested. They probably would have had the same result if they’d used their food sack as a pillow.

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I did the best I could, but didn’t feel completely comfortable knowing that grizzly would likely smell it. The next day, I didn’t notice any evidence of a bear, but I will likely take a canister next time in known bear country. In a lot of places there aren’t shelters or designated campsites so there isn’t one place that you could justify placing a metal bear vault or cable for hikers to use. The only place that I can think of them being placed is in a few small areas along the John Muir Trail in the high sierras where you are required to carry bear canisters.

I went through renting Garcia’s to buying a BV to eventually buying a Bearicade. I justify the cost, weight, and packing annoyance with the Free Camp Chair. Goes to show how bear activity changes over time and with changes in policies/regs. I believe they were removed for aesthetics and to discourage any hikers from keeping food in the shelter when they have perfectly good bear cables available. In my experience, in years past, a PCT hang has been effective, but like Andrew points out, my hanging hasn’t been tested.

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Other tools might be a camp warning system to give an audible alarm after a trip wire is disturbed. This device pulls a pin out of a siren device, which activates and audible alarm. The pin is attached to fishing line which you can wrap around trees or stakes in the ground.

I think a bear can is overkill on the AT, and I wouldn’t recommend carrying one. I get called out by just about everyone saying leave the canister at home. My base weight with the canister is less than 16lbs.

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Why the heck am I camping in such a dangerous place? If I accept the fact that a bear will not murder me in my sleep because of my tuna breath, then it follows that food in my sleeping bag in an odor-proof sack is likely to be even safer than I am. Almost everyone who doesn’t carry a bear canister doesn’t hang their food properly. That is also part of Andrew’s argument and it’s very true in my experience. Most bear bags I come across I can touch by jumping or they’re almost against the tree trunk.

Will Bears Bother You In A Tent?

If hard-sided canisters like theBearvault BV450are required, carry one. Scattered owner complaints about being cold in this sleeping bag. Like other mummy bags, this model might feel too snug to some big and tall campers. Like other mummy bags, this model feels confining to some tall or heavy people. Can be challenging to pack into its stuff sack, some owners say.

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If you’re having issues with bears already, I’d look at canisters. They suck to carry, but they’re really good at protecting food, and they’re more foolproof than other options. Technically you “hang” your food in Glacier, but really you’re using park-provided infrastructure, specifically horizontal beams that have been installed at all backcountry camps.

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There are a lot of backcountry veterans who sleep “open sky”, even in winter using nothing but a water proof tarp. I have really enjoyed it, and it gives you a better sense of what’s around you in the wilderness. What kind of bears are we talking about here? North American black bears or even grizzly bears have very little interest in eating you.

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If you are not sure how then you need to get some training. As a LNT master educator we do teach all kinds of methods for all kinds of environments including those where you don’t have convenient horizontal branches at the correct height. I’ve seen many innovative hang techniques that solve the problem of the hang but at significant damage to the trees. Dragging loaded lines with abrasive cord over branches or in the notch of a tree will do the tree in very quickly. We teach simple methods to avoid this damage.

I’m a big game hunter who has to backpack out my game meat. I bear hang the meat backpacking out the quarters in turn. The only problem I’ve had with bears and wolves is when I’ve left the meat hanging overnight returning to it in the morning. Campers should seriously consider bear proof containers. One trick that’s worth considering is to powder the outside of your food container and the base of the tree with Cayenne pepper powder. Animals can’t smell anything for a couple of days after getting a nose full of that stuff.