For those with enough experience to suggest tips, what do you do to find campspot locations that better avoid bears in the backcountry? To offer advice one should have some understanding of where bears tend to spend their time at various times of day and night and routes they take to get there. One also should have some understanding of the way air moves during the day and at night because obviously it is an advantage to not have a breeze blowing from your just cooked trout frying pan wafting along terrain to where Mr Bear might be snorting about for directions to travel. And please do suggest some well used camping locations to avoid that always seem to have bears during summer.
Some might immediately blurt out, "don't care, we always carry bear canisters" and ignore them." Well good for you and pleasant dreams. But even then if camping some places, one will have to be extra wary whenever one is preparing or eating meals. And for others with canisters, just having bears walking about at night making one of their monstrous sounding snorts is enough to keep some creeped out and awake for hours.
For others like this person who on longer trips where weight and bulkiness is an issue, prefers to dispense with the 2.8 pound canister, one may consider the destination zone and if legal choose to deal with the possibility of bear visits by non-canister means. For some that may be traditional hanging food from a rope in a tree or using Ursacks without liners. Whatever. And if so the wisdom of not camping where bears are likely to roam, has value.
In this thread, PLEASE, let us not get into how we are storing or protecting food and focus only on camp spots that avoid bears. The reason I'm asking that is some enthusiasts cannot discuss that issue without becoming emotional and we've heard it all in any case several times over. If you want to talk about food storage you are welcome to start your own thread.
I do have some inputs to make but except for the following will do so later.
Do not make camp inside a bear cave.
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Avoid camping at Beehive Meadow.
Avoid camping near Vidette Meadow