Tips for Bear Country Camping | Outdoor Skills | OSMEtv
Tips for Bear Country Camping | Outdoor Skills | OSMEtv
If you’re planning on camping or hiking in bear country, take a few minutes to review these tips so you have a safe enjoyable outing.
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Very informative. I am beginning to do more car camping and just started thinking about what to do with the food I keep in my SUV refrigerator while sleeping in my car. I really was enjoying the way you explain things and I wasn’t sure why I was liking it so much, then it hit me, you remind me of Steve Martin! I don’t know if you get that a lot, but that’s a good thing in my book. 🙂
I chant the Hari Krishna for hours at a time hiking in bear country.
You mentioned bear bells in this video. I’d never heard that before. Most videos talk about bear smelling power but not about their hearing ability. I’m curious to ask how their hearing rates against us and other critters like dogs?
Thanks.
Always carry hot in bear country. If a bear approaches you from behind, recognize this is predatory. Be prepared to defend yourself by whatever means possible. If that means taking aim and firing, then you do so! A charging bear will run right thru bear spray if he means to attack you!
Prevent, but deter as well with a portable electric bear fence. 2.4 lbs of kit (the best fence) that brings huge peace of mind.
Can you put chap stick and the like inside of a cooler inside your tent?
In the 60s, my dad was with his scout camp at Yellowstone. They had just fished all day on the lake and the bears raided the campsite in the middle of the night. All hell broke loose. Kids yelling and screaming everywhere. I don’t think anyone was hurt.
Talk about great timing!! I’m currently camping in Grizzley country here in the Canadian Rockies. Had to drive to cell service and check messages… your vid came up!! Super advice, thank you!
Here’s a tip take a gun
Ohh and a 41 Mag with a 308 Winchester.
TIP # 1
Don’t bring food 😂
Good video overall. Only black bears though. Everything you’ve stated squared when in grizz territory.
Very good video. I don’t live or camp in bear country, but who’s to say? If is far better to be prepared for the occassional, if rare, bear encounter. Wild animals care only about self-preservation, and don’t give two shits about you. Avoidance is best, but a good camper/hiker is ready for anything.
Philmont teaches the "Bearmuda Triangle". Keep your "smellables" considerably away from where you sleep and hang them in a bear bag. On two treks I took there with my sons (and their troop) we practiced this and never had an issue.
Where do you store food if your staying in camper trailer for a long period of time?
Dig a deep pit fall around your tent.🤔
Jackie chan is a quack
Thank you! New to camping and informative! Now, if we never cross paths with snakes, bears or even a moose, would deem this as a great camping trip!
Thank you for the video. Blessings to you.
Wonderful stuff and great presentation. I am dead-center of bear country (Lincoln County, NM – essentially where Smokey Bear CAME from) and relatively new to the area, but I also do a ton of car camping – with food, snacks, smellables, even a 12V fridge in my car.
It’s really tough to figure out how to "practically" handle the situation, especially when my family is with me. Fridge in car front seat while we sleep in back? Fridge outside, under awning? Fridge under a tarp 100 feet away?
I simply don’t believe that every single weekend-warrior camper with a trailer/RV is emptying their entire cooler/fridge into a bear bag a long distance away from camp. There’s just no way that all the people and campsites I see are going through all this effort. Most of them probably don’t even know they’re SUPPOSED to care about this stuff. (Not saying that’s a good thing, just that I’m positive most people don’t go through all this effort).
And at the same time, I also know that 99% of these campers/campsites aren’t having any problems with bears this weekend. Still, it keeps me awake at night sometimes, I will admit.
So, it feels really hard to figure out exactly how I should be handling the situation! Right now I’m at the stage of "do a good job, and remember that bears are around, but perfection is probably not necessary or even possible." That said, I have bear spray and a firearm available. God willing, they will never need to be used. I love bears, they are one of the coolest and cutest animals and certainly worthy of infinite respect.
Thanks for the video 🙂
Thank you very much for your advice! ☺🙏 Could you tell me how I should handle sweaty leather boots? Is it problematic in or in front of the tent? Or I don’t have to worry about it?
I live in Alaska. People who stink like sweat are more likely to be attacked then someone who forgot the tube of chapstick in their pocket. If you smell like a nasty meat stick……
Great information, thank you!!!
What about commercial campgrounds like KOA? I mean, there are over 50 pitches and everyone is cooking over an open fire. That must attract every bear in the area
And bring a gun