Camping in the middle of nowhere colorado?
If I were camping out in the middle of nowhere, and set up a camp to do some gold hunting… Stayed out there for several weeks.. How could I do this without getting in trouble? I would need to set up camp near the river I am prospecting.. And I dont see anyone having the discipline to follow all those rules about keeping anything with scent in a bear protective container for a couple weeks on end.
How do you pull something like this off without getting into trouble with bears or rangers.
One of Colorado's appeals is the mineral belt through the state…and the vast majority of it is in national forests and or BLM..camping is this country's coolest asset as far as I'm concerned.
'Bear country' is a relative term…they aren't exactly politically correct in there ways and means. If you pitch camp in a bears kitchen, you'll probably have company.
Keep a clean camp..'hang' your kitchen every knight.. be overly careful with your fire – enclose it if you can.. sleep 30 or 40 yards from where you cook and eat.
..keep a couple pots or pans in your tent in case you do get a visitor in the night-loud noise is pretty effective dissuading a bear form becoming assertive or aggressive in the dark..
..rangers might spot your fire smoke, and come check you out..there is a 14 day 'stay' policy here..then you will be told that you need move 15 miles befor pitching another 'camp'..it's a good policy..comply with it.
..Smoke watchers could spot your smoke as well..there are still 'Look-Outs' maned and attended around these outter countrys forests, and EVERY sign of smoke is checked out…ether by a ranger, or chopper, or plain.
..there are maintained 'claims' scattered through out these whole mountian ranges, not that they are frequently monitored, but they are lagitimet claims.
The bears are a 'varriable'..seeing one will depend on how well you camp…the rangers are an absolute..your fire will bring them..thats is just how things work out here.
December 13th, 2008 at 7:53 am
If you don't want to have an encounter with a bear, you have to be pretty clean when camping.
If you are in camp most of the day you don't have to worry about a strict regimin of clean scent camping. At night, get your food and coolers and suspend them from a limb at least eight feet from the trunk of the tree and 15 feet oiff the ground. This will not guarantee a bear-free night, but it will discourage any bears from sticking around.
As far as rangers, if you are not on National Park Lands, you will encounter no rangers. A forest service patrol maybe, but no rangers
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December 13th, 2008 at 8:37 am
Better make sure you're also in an area where there are no mining claims. People get a bit testy when you're poaching their claim.
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December 13th, 2008 at 8:46 am
My buddy goes to Silverton all the time and pans for gold… He won't tell me where his "honey pot" is but it's out there.
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December 13th, 2008 at 9:27 am
One of Colorado's appeals is the mineral belt through the state…and the vast majority of it is in national forests and or BLM..camping is this country's coolest asset as far as I'm concerned.
'Bear country' is a relative term…they aren't exactly politically correct in there ways and means. If you pitch camp in a bears kitchen, you'll probably have company.
Keep a clean camp..'hang' your kitchen every knight.. be overly careful with your fire – enclose it if you can.. sleep 30 or 40 yards from where you cook and eat.
..keep a couple pots or pans in your tent in case you do get a visitor in the night-loud noise is pretty effective dissuading a bear form becoming assertive or aggressive in the dark..
..rangers might spot your fire smoke, and come check you out..there is a 14 day 'stay' policy here..then you will be told that you need move 15 miles befor pitching another 'camp'..it's a good policy..comply with it.
..Smoke watchers could spot your smoke as well..there are still 'Look-Outs' maned and attended around these outter countrys forests, and EVERY sign of smoke is checked out…ether by a ranger, or chopper, or plain.
..there are maintained 'claims' scattered through out these whole mountian ranges, not that they are frequently monitored, but they are lagitimet claims.
The bears are a 'varriable'..seeing one will depend on how well you camp…the rangers are an absolute..your fire will bring them..thats is just how things work out here.
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