Avoiding Salt in Bear Safety

Video Transcript

"Something else that is a smell that attracts animals is the smell of salt. It doesn't necessarily attract bears as much as it attracts elk and moose and all sorts of other animals like that. Sometimes there have been situations where the animals have like smelled salt and they come and they want to lick it and they like run through the tent. All sorts of weird stuff happens. So you want to try to bathe when you can, if you find a stream or anything. Try to get all that extra salt from your sweat off of you. Try to wash your socks. Try to wash your clothes as much as possible. As far as your boots are concerned, you really really want them to stay dry, but you don't want all the animals coming for them. So when you lean your pack up against the tree at the end of the day with the rain cover over it, you can stick your boots underneath your pack. And then keep your camp shoes underneath the tent flier or in your tent with you. Because they won't have as much salt on them, you haven't been wearing them as much. You can wear them in the mornings before you put your boots on."