I didn't know you are supposed to hang food in a different location from where you cook? I just hung it in the nearest tree from my cooking area. Whats the reasoning behind that?
to have the least amount of food smell near the things you don't want the bear to get into
1) Your sleeping area
2) Your food.
IF your food is hanging right near something that smells tasty - more effort will be spent investigating it. having any kind of critter in your food sucks.
Most prepped campgrounds don't bother with it - but their bear poles are big and high and or
they have strong bear boxes - so they just keep the storage and eating/cooking areas nearby.
When I random camp - I don't bear hang near where I cook, or eat.
Anyhow yeah thats what I though... do not cook near your sleeping area. I guess a poncho tarp would work. But then you would need to put it up and take it down each time you need to go anywhere else.
heh - "put up" a poncho tarp. For me this is usually put it on long enough to crawl under a spruce
tree and make my dinner there if it's really nasty out. OTOH, I've just worn it for the duration
and cooked with it in front of me. Alternatively if the eating area has a firepit then I might
actually set it up as a tarp and sit under it. takes about a minute and a half to set up on trekking poles if you practice <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />
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