Caring for Your Camp Food

Video Transcript

"I'm Jordan Pederson from Expert Village. We're going to talk a little bit about safety and cougar and bear country, but mostly right now we're going to talk about taking care of your food in a camp ground. Several things that you don't want to do is leave food out. Another thing is pop. I've seen it just put under the tongue of a trailer. Basically pop is sugar and water. Once they learn that they can crush those aluminum cans very easily. Another thing that we don't want people to do is try to burn food in a campfire. That just causes many problems. Most of the camp grounds have dumpsters in them, bear proof dumpsters, and we would encourage you to use those. If they don't, we have a rule or saying, pack it pack it out. So have some large trash bags where you can crush your cans and put your food in a large bag and take out what you don't need. Never take it out on the woods and dispose of it behind a tree or try to burn it in a campfire. Another thing that we do not encourage people to do is bring hummingbird feeders and put them up in camp grounds. Humming birds are fun to watch, but again sugar and water and bears have learned to pull those down and drink the nectar out of them. This is another source of problems that can be caused. If you're camping in a wilderness setting, set your camp of your tent at least a 100 feet from where you cook and put the clothes that you cook in in your pack in a plastic bag and leave them where you cook and take only your sleeping bag and a flash light and bear spray with you when you go to your tent. No food what so ever, no toothpaste, deodorant, or perfumes of any kind. These attract bears. Bears can smell 30 times better than we can. Even if they don't want to eat it, they attracted to a new spell and we'll come to investigate. Again, a fed bear is a dead bear. "