[pct-l] to sleep with or not to sleep with...

[spiritbear2k@xxxxxxxxxxx (Ginny & Jim Owen)]

Tome -
Why don't you put that effort into getting Inyo to do something useful -
like putting in bear boxes?
Walk softly,
Jim



Tom Reynolds -

>As I have stated repeatedly. The reason you don't sleep with your food is
>to
>protect me and my four year old son.
>
>If a bear gets the nerve to crash a tent and GETS food from the experience,
>that bear will repeatedly crash tents until it is destroyed.
>
>You keep your food from bears to protect the bears. You don't sleep with
>your food because you don't want to be responsible for the child you maime
>by creating a tent crashing bear.
>
>All this, "I have never had a bear problem" is just BS. In over 300 nights
>in the Sierra a bear has shown up maybe 10 times and those ten times are in
>the predictible locations. In general, most nights a bear never visits your
>campground. Stealth camping is the art of hiding from a bear. Aside from
>the
>fact that it is illegial and subject to a big fine, stealth camping will
>work very well for thruhikers passing through the sierra in the early
>season
>[before July 1]. During that timeframe a stealth camper is very unlikely to
>have a bear visit.
>
>Sleeping with your food says something like. "If a bear shows up [unlikely]
>I would rather risk maiming a child than losing my food"
>
>If the thruhiking community can't take responsibility for not sleeping with
>their food, I fear that I must throw the effort I previously put into
>ADZPCTKO into ending thruhiking thru Inyo without a canister.
>


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