Another Camping Trip

I think this topic triggered some funny and fond memories. As I mentioned. In my last post, I traveled around the US camping in national parks.

One night while camping in Yellowstone, our group of four sat around our campfire planning the next few days of our adventure.

Without warning we heard this noise almost like a baby wailing. It was coming from another campsite. We decided to investigate which was probably the wrong thing to do.

The sites were separated by groupings of trees. When we arrived at the site, we saw a metal cooler shredded and a pile of dung. At that moment a ranger arrived. He said it was a grizzly bear. Yikes I was so glad we didn’t run into the bear.

The person whose campsite it was came out of his tent wondering why we were all there. He looked at his cooler and cringed. He had slept through the entire incident.

I learned that day that even metal coolers are not to be left out. From then on we kept our food in the car. For backwoods camping, you tie it in a tree.