Bear Country Rules and Regs

Some make complete sense: don’t leave food unattended at your campsite. Others seem needlessly alarmist: don’t sleep in clothes that you’ve worn while cooking and no water bottles, new or not. Last night we threw caution to the wind and – confident that our nylon and mesh fortress could handle even the most determined Grizzly – bathed in a vat of bacon grease before bedding down. Then we outraced a pack of angry park rangers to the Canadian border where we were denied political asylum.