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Keeping Food From Bears When Backpacking

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From Quick Guide: Canisters 101

Summary: Don't keep smell-ables in a tent at night. Learn about hiding food and bear safety in this free backpacking video on camping and the outdoors.

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"Some National Parks actually have such a big bear problem that they have designated canisters that you can put any of your waste, anything that's considered to be a smellable in. So you need to be sure, there's, there's tons of things that you'll be packing with you that are considered smellable to bears. And if they are, then you need to be sure to not keep them in your tent when you're sleeping at night. You need to be sure to not keep them near you basically at night time when the bears are going to be walking around and looking for food. So look for the canisters. There will be designated bear bag areas. Sometimes little string of cable between two trees. And what you can do is you can basically hang up a bear bag. And so that, the idea behind that is that it's too high up for the bears to get and it's in between two trees so they can't crawl up a tree and get the bear bag. So if you are in a National Park where bears or any other kind of animal really, is a problem, be sure to find out if there's canisters that you can use. And if there's not canisters, you need to bring rope so that you can do bear bags."

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