Originally Posted by twin3037
if your going in areas with bears take rope and put your food up in a tree is the ebst way to do it. since your not backpacking and just camping i suggest u take a tarp and put it under your tent otherwise your brand new tne make get a hole in it from a stick and more importantlly that extra insulation to the ground is wonderful if it's cold or raining
Idiot! Bears can climb trees!
I'd say keep the food in your tent! Hide it under your pillow so that way the bears could hardly smell it. And if they DO happen to smell it then they'd have to wake you by moving you first, therefore waking you up and you could yell at them and scare them away.