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Re: Test Drive: 2015 Subaru XV Crosstrek
« Reply #20 on: August 06, 2015, 11:31:42 am »
We don't store the food in the car when we front-country camp.  Most campgrounds have lockers where you can store your food away from your camp site.

Some friends of ours had a grizzly open their Ford Focus like a tin can. The fire department couldn't have done such a quick job with saws and jaws.
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Re: Test Drive: 2015 Subaru XV Crosstrek
« Reply #21 on: August 06, 2015, 11:33:03 am »
Yeah, never fack around in areas where bears populate. Never cook near your tent or keep food in it.
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Re: Test Drive: 2015 Subaru XV Crosstrek
« Reply #22 on: August 06, 2015, 11:38:51 am »
We are car campers, not back country ones... the worst thing we've had to deal with was fcuking racoon's getting into my buddy's styrofoam cooler one night  :rofl2:
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Re: Test Drive: 2015 Subaru XV Crosstrek
« Reply #23 on: August 06, 2015, 11:40:52 am »
Quote from: JacobBlack on August 06, 2015, 11:31:33 am
So explain to me how that's any different to camping in a tent next to your car? #itsnot

Do you seriously think the bear will just sniff around your car and not check out your tent?

This is the right thing to do....

Quote from: johngenx on August 06, 2015, 11:31:42 am
We don't store the food in the car when we front-country camp.  Most campgrounds have lockers where you can store your food away from your camp site.
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Re: Test Drive: 2015 Subaru XV Crosstrek
« Reply #24 on: August 06, 2015, 11:43:02 am »
I like the sign they have in Yosemite.

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Re: Test Drive: 2015 Subaru XV Crosstrek
« Reply #25 on: August 06, 2015, 11:43:25 am »
Quote from: quadzilla on August 06, 2015, 11:40:52 am
Do you seriously think the bear will just sniff around your car and not check out your tent?

No I don't, I agree with you, I would store my food elsewhere.

My point is that there is absolutely no difference between camping in a tent near your car, and camping in a tent with a sleeve that is connected to your locked up, closed up car.

You following?
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Re: Test Drive: 2015 Subaru XV Crosstrek
« Reply #26 on: August 06, 2015, 11:50:05 am »
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Re: Test Drive: 2015 Subaru XV Crosstrek
« Reply #27 on: August 06, 2015, 11:51:09 am »
I wasn't following because this is what you said....

Quote from: JacobBlack on August 06, 2015, 11:21:32 am
No you can't. Like I wrote in the review, you can open or close the hatch with the awning up. Hatch closed = no food smells.

Quote from: JacobBlack on August 06, 2015, 11:27:39 am
Still this makes it absolutely no different from keeping food in your car and the tent nearby - hence, is not really a drama in bear country.

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Re: Test Drive: 2015 Subaru XV Crosstrek
« Reply #28 on: August 06, 2015, 11:55:22 am »
Okay, so I was foolish with how I phrased those things.
From the bear perspective, this tent is no different to a tent that doesn't have a vehicle sleeve. The car and tent can still be 100 percent separate and sealed from each other.
But yes, if a bear is going looking at one, he's sure as :censor: going looking at the other.
#bears
#canadahasthebestanimals


 
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Re: Test Drive: 2015 Subaru XV Crosstrek
« Reply #29 on: August 06, 2015, 11:56:23 am »
Quote from: quadzilla on August 06, 2015, 11:29:25 am

That would SUCK!

Noted.  No food near campsite.
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Re: Test Drive: 2015 Subaru XV Crosstrek
« Reply #30 on: August 06, 2015, 12:00:15 pm »
Only safe tent option, the way I see it. Then again this forum may have become derailed.

 
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Re: Test Drive: 2015 Subaru XV Crosstrek
« Reply #31 on: August 06, 2015, 12:08:52 pm »
Quote from: redman on August 06, 2015, 12:00:15 pm
Only safe tent option, the way I see it. Then again this forum may have become derailed.

 
:drool:

I wish I had the cojones to ACTUALLY go out and do that.  I'd love it, but would never initiate such a trip on my own.
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Re: Test Drive: 2015 Subaru XV Crosstrek
« Reply #32 on: August 06, 2015, 12:10:22 pm »
Ever seen a cat clamp eyes on something dangling down from a height, swinging back and forth?
Now imagine a mountain lion coming across the dangling tree tent there....
Bugger that for a joke!
Hotel FTMFW!  :rofl2:
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Re: Test Drive: 2015 Subaru XV Crosstrek
« Reply #33 on: August 06, 2015, 01:04:42 pm »
On the car-tent theme, you can get this one at the parts dpt of VW dealers:

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Re: Test Drive: 2015 Subaru XV Crosstrek
« Reply #34 on: August 06, 2015, 02:24:34 pm »
LOL going "camping" this weekend.  I am going to the GCFR rally.

The driver I agreed to co-drive with told me he had access to a cottage, great!  Then a few days later he tells met he cottage has been cancelled and we were going to tent it.

I said HELLZ NO!

Called up Angry Chicken and thankfully he lent me his coleman tent trailer.  It's not a cottage or full sized RV trailer but it's certainly better than a tent.
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Re: Test Drive: 2015 Subaru XV Crosstrek
« Reply #35 on: August 06, 2015, 04:26:53 pm »
Quote from: quadzilla on August 06, 2015, 11:43:02 am
I like the sign they have in Yosemite.



Ha!  2 pages in and we're solidly de-railed.  So let me boot it a bit further.  And because the Oatmeal is awesome.
Encounter a bear?  Kick it in the nuts.

http://theoatmeal.com/quiz/bear_balls
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Re: Test Drive: 2015 Subaru XV Crosstrek
« Reply #36 on: August 06, 2015, 04:28:12 pm »
Quote from: Noto on August 06, 2015, 11:56:23 am
Quote from: quadzilla on August 06, 2015, 11:29:25 am

That would SUCK!

Noted.  No food near campsite.
sadly, that bear looks so nice too...kinda like a big doggie where you want to go pet the top of his head and ask if he wants to go for a car ride...i know, i know...he'd rip your face off...but still, look how cute he is. :)
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Re: Test Drive: 2015 Subaru XV Crosstrek
« Reply #37 on: August 06, 2015, 04:30:27 pm »
Quote from: Weels on August 06, 2015, 04:26:53 pm
Ha!  2 pages in and we're solidly de-railed.  So let me boot it a bit further.  And because the Oatmeal is awesome.
Encounter a bear?  Kick it in the nuts.

http://theoatmeal.com/quiz/bear_balls
i'll contribute:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etzvPYMUpeU
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Re: Test Drive: 2015 Subaru XV Crosstrek
« Reply #38 on: August 06, 2015, 04:59:55 pm »
Quote from: Weels on August 06, 2015, 04:26:53 pm
Ha!  2 pages in and we're solidly de-railed.  So let me boot it a bit further.  And because the Oatmeal is awesome.
Encounter a bear?  Kick it in the nuts.

http://theoatmeal.com/quiz/bear_balls
34 seconds.
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Re: Test Drive: 2015 Subaru XV Crosstrek
« Reply #39 on: August 06, 2015, 05:44:33 pm »
Never had problems with bears while camping up north for 30 years up north with my trusty canoe trip 12 gauge and slugs  :)
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