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Had a bear in camp last night.
Sound asleep in the camper when I heard a loud bang, woke me up out of a sound sleep. I knew it was the dumpster lid. They're the bear proof variety and some people don't know how to work them. Thought "who's the idiot dumping his garbage at 1am and making all that damn noise?"
Poked my head out of the camper and took a look around. No campfires, no voices. Then i realized it was a bear. Heard more banging a little further away (the first dumpster I heard was the one about 50 yards ahead of my site) and then I could hear the wheels of the dumpster grinding on the pavement.
Locked everything back up tight and crawled back in bed. I was a little worried about the side cubbies on my camper. When the camper is on the truck they just open to the bed but when they're not parked together the cubbies are in the wide open. It's less than a 12" square door so not like the bear could come all the way inside. But he could sniff around a bit. I keep the trash can right in front of one of those doors so I moved it to the bathroom for the night.
Saw the camp host this morning and let them know. She told me she already knew, it had knocked over the dumpster by the camp entrance! So that was the second round of noise I had heard.
They've had a lot of bears in the area this summer thanks to fires the last few years destroying lots of their usual habitat. Just glad everyone was minding their bear country rules as we did have a lot of tenters last night. Could have been way worse than a tipped over dumpster.