Use a Bear-Bag/canister hanging it from a tree 200 feet away, and don’t take food or toothpaste to “sleeping bag” at night. A teachable moment. Liberals don’t understand physics or the law of nature.... and they never listened to Mother Nature!
Decades ago our tent trailer was shaken one night by a bear at Jasper, Canada. We made a lot of noise and it went away. Told the park ranger the next morning and she shook her head and went to the next campsite. She came back quickly and told us she was getting a bear trap as the tent next to us was ripped to shreds. The tent owner luckily stayed the night in town. The ranger told us bears like shampoo and liquid soap and can smell them from far away. That tent had both inside the ripped tent.
I’ll give this kid the benefit of the doubt. He was at a Christian camp as a staffer. Most of those kids don’t lean liberal.
Sometimes you take all the bear precautions and still get visited by the creatures.
My sister in law was leading a group of girls on a backcountry trip in bear country. Her and the other leader had a bear country tent, meaning no food in it ever. A young bear entered camp and meandered over to their tent whereupon it proceeded to eat two brand new Big Agnes air mattresses.
These certainly had no food. I think it was their first morning in camp.
My brother was kind of miffed when he found out. He just dropped $60 each on the air mattresses.
Black bears are basically big overgrown rodents.
I’ve only camped front country in Colorado yet we still practiced serious bear prevention. It’s a different ballgame there than in the Midwest. Generally food is prepared and eaten far away from tents.