Yesterday I wrote about 10 tips for surviving a bear encounter. That got me thinking though. Maybe the best way to deal with a bear encounter is to try to prevent one altogether.
So I’ve put together a list of tips that will help keep the bears from showing up at your camp site. Prevention is much easier to handle than an actual encounter.
Camping and wilderness seem to go hand in hand. It just doesn’t have the same appeal when you think about camping in the parking lot at your local Wal-mart.
Enjoying the wilderness also means taking on the potential risks that come with it. There are any number of dangers in the wild – from poison ivy to wild animals and everything in between.
Bears definitely fall into that category. They are beautiful creatures to observe, but they deserve a great deal of respect and caution. We’re going to look at some tips for surviving a bear encounter while camping.