Camping

Planning a trip into bear country and looking up food storage advice can feel like collecting contradictions. One source says you need a certified canister. Another says hanging is fine if you do it right. A ranger station handout says something else again, and there's a whole category of odor-proof bags stacked next to the freeze-dried meals at the outfitter that nobody explains clearly. Bear country food storage is confusing because different places require different things, and most advice treats it as one topic when it's really two: keeping a bear physically out of your food, and keeping a bear [...]