Heard about some guys (’not from around here,’ as they say) hunting up near Yellowstone this year who set up a really big tipi right in the parking area near the trailhead to use as their base camp.
All good and fine though you are going to have a lot of traffic in such a spot.
But they also put up some small t-posts and stretched a wire around the tipi with a solar generator attached to give their wire a bit of an electric charge, the kind you might use to to top your garden fence to discourage racoons.
My buddy asked them what was up with the fence. “We’ve got our food and stuff in there,” said the out-of-stater. “That’s to keep the grizzlies away.”
Back in the day I did field research in Namib and Kalahari Deserts and in the Etosha Pan and would live for months in a tent inside a chain-link enclosure really out in the middle of nowhere. I grew up camping in the Cascades and Rockies and I guess I always figured most people had at least slept outdoors before - not so. Anyway, I’d start out telling the new students my two rules: always wear shoes, and NO FOOD IN THE TENT! Not even a candy wrapper, cause you see that 12 foot chain-link fence? A lion can jump over that. And you hear that sound? That’s a lion. Oh - and don’t “f” with the honey badgers and stay away from busted up termite mounds - mambas live in them and they are aggressive and can move faster than you can run. The boys were always more freaked than the girls. When hiking I liked keeping people close together so if someone strayed to far I say, “Good work, Bill - that looks like great snake habitat! Tell me if you find anything!” That makes them just about levitate. Seriously though, a cohort and I were following some critters and lost track of the time and really had to hightail to get back into camp by sundown. It was pretty freakin scary.
I’ve heard of that. Don’t know how much I’d trust it though. I prefer not to hunt in grizzly country.