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Old 10-20-11 | 07:41 AM
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i will echo most of what everyone has said in here so far. the big triangle of cooking/camping/food storage, bigger in grizz country.

a couple of tips: 1) knock out your shoes in the morning before putting them on if they were outside of your tent.
slugs and scorpions like insides of shoes.

and 2) hang your food bag line before it gets dark. pick the tree and the limb, spend time hanging it up before dark, have it ready to hang your stuff when you're ready to retire.

I also suggest rigging the line so you can hang the food just a few feet off the ground while you are cooking or at your tent away from the food bag before hauling it high up into the trees for the night- it keeps the common campsite critters- raccoons, camp mice, fox and other varmits - from digging into the rest of your food while you're cooking dinner, and still leaves your stuff at person height easy to access for tea, desserts, your lip balm and toothpaste.

that only doesn't work in bear country. you can find bears just walking around yellowstone campgrounds at dusk......

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