If you are going backpacking on any of the national parks or national forests in the United States or Canada, probably making plans to go backpacking in the country to bear.

These tips are not designed backpack to scare or discourage you from backpacking in those places. In fact, the opposite is true. The desert is home to bears, and where the desert is best hiking and trekking can be experienced. Knowledge is your best defense against unpleasant encounters with bears. So here are some precautions to consider.

1. Never feed bears or other wild creatures. Most bears are happy to live and find their food as their ancestors did before that humans arrived on the scene. However, some bears have become habituated to human food and, therefore, be a little dangerous. These parasites not invite to dinner. They have, more or less to the last, very bad manners.

2. Never camp near a corpse. Doing so can only invite you to dinner with a bear. Even if you are invited to the dinner of this kind, decline the invitation. Finding a new place to sleep and eat in less than half mile away.

3. Do not camp in the kitchen. Do your cooking and eating several yards downwind of your tent.

4. Do not install a pantry in your bedroom. Never store food in the store. Bears have been known to draw separation stores to get food that they have come to love.

Let me tell you this. It is a scary thing to have a bear trying to get in your tent – especially when you're at it. Once arrived at a camp in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park which was shattered. Pieces of a bag sleep, a tent and a backpack were scattered all around. Only a bear could have done what I witnessed. It was a frightening spectacle.

4. Do not cook or eat in your bedroom. Never eat in your tent. Even if you remove all debris and trash after cooking or eating in his tent, the smell of food extend to his tent and all its contents and create an open invitation for bears to come and investigate.

5. Do not go to the bathroom in her bedroom. Set your room bathing several meters from his tent – the wind.

6. Cache all food away from bears. Hikers and backpackers have become, by necessity, very ingenious, with respect to keeping their food safe from bears. There are many methods and some work better than others.

In many places, especially in California, the bears have come very close game the wit of the hikers. I remember waking up one morning, while the backpack in Yosemite with my father and my brothers to find the backpack of one of my brothers torn and lacking food. Luckily, we were on the last day of our trip of several days.

7. Store any other items that have a smell out of his tent. This is the closest we come to poetry. The best practice is to seal things as lip balm, empty food wrappers, all trash (remember, pack it all out), used sanitary napkins and sunscreen on stock plastic and store in the cache of food. Be careful, even the clothes you cook your food can attract bears.

8. Establish a storage system cached food well before you start your walk. Develop your system caching of food before you start driving to the trailhead and test in your backyard.

One of the most reliable food-caching systems is the bear-proof container. You can find them online by Googling "bear cans". In some national parks of Yosemite for one, these boats are required. It adds a little weight to your backpack, but also give you a good dose of tranquility.

If you are a backpacker microlight, ultralight assemble a bear bag system. Online search for "ultralight bear bag" for information about creating your own bag bear or when to buy one.

Some guests are friendly and pleasant to visit a. Bears are not among they.

Thus, while the backpack in the desert, nothing is off the guest list. And be careful not to inadvertently invite them with attractive odors.

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