Dont store anything food related in your van.  Wash all your dishes away
from your site. Haul your food and garbage up in a tree with a rope at night
away from your site.  Ive been camping in the grand tetons where bears where
breaking into backcounry campers cars in the middle of the night for food
stored in a tighly lidded cooler.  Good luck

Emmet

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Kasper [mailto:dragonlist@IPMTS.UCSC.EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 4:42 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: bears and westys

we're leaving the 3d for a three-week trip in our syncro westfalia, and i am
wondering what other folk do about bears when they're in the back of beyond
that happens to be bear country.

our 3-year old is going to be up in the poptop...

thanks!
bill
'87 syncro westfalia
http://www.scruznet.com/~kasper/pics/westy/