[Viking2002]

That’s what you get for falling asleep and leaving your Doritos open in your sleeping bag.

[Rennes Templar]

I was camping many years ago with a friend. We had two separate tents. He left some food in his. When we returned from a day-long hike, his tent was destroyed, mine untouched about ten feet away.

[fr_freak]

That’s what you get for falling asleep and leaving your Doritos open in your sleeping bag.

Bags of Doritos and other stuff bring worse things than bears. I was camping with a group along the California coast one time and we all slept in a ring around the campfire, no tents, just sleeping bags. I had been munching on a box of Cheez-its before I tucked in to go to sleep. I had carefully rolled up the plastic bag inside and closed the box, but that doesn't mean a thing to keen-nosed animals.

I woke up to the sound of something rummaging in that box, right next to my head, long after the campfire was out. I assumed it was a raccoon or something, as I could only see its rear end pointing at me, and cleared my throat a couple of times to scare it off, but it didn't care - it was in a feeding frenzy. I was thinking of making a much louder noise to send it running, but by then my eyes had adjusted better and I realized I was staring at the ass end of a skunk, tail up, only about two feet from my face, and that scaring it might result in a world of suffering I wasn't prepared for, so I just covered my head with the sleeping bag and let him have his fill.

[wardaddy]

The article says no food attractants were at the campsite