That would be pretty awesome wouldn't it? Just signal the drone to drop some goodies. Unless it crashed, then you would be grylis-ing it on the way out.
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That would be pretty awesome wouldn't it? Just signal the drone to drop some goodies. Unless it crashed, then you would be grylis-ing it on the way out.
You are sure that, if the food had been in the next door tent with the hikers, the bear would not have tried to get it? I'm not willing to take that chance, with this particular bear, miles from help.
The tooth-point thing was an attempt to lighten the mood. The facts are a bear entered a tent and obtained food. This is aggressive behavior on the part of the bear and contributes to learned...
There was an aggressive bear encounter in that area a couple of years ago. IIRC correctly, a bear entered a camp and took a pack/foodbag at tooth-point. I do not know if the pack/bag was in a tent.
You can sleep with it in the tent but you never know what bear is going to show up. Shining rock has had problems with aggressive bears in the recent past. I wouldn't take the chance of keeping food...