When backpacking through a forest or anywhere in the wilderness, where should one keep their food at night?

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One of the first things I have learned when camping/backpacking is to never keep any kind of food inside your tent at all. If so, and one is backpacking, say through the Rockies, then where should you put your food when you are not hiking?

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Some place at Rocky Mountain National Park they have "Bear Boxes" and "Bear Cables" or you could get a bear canister.
http://www.basegear.com/bearcache.html

Where is a good place to go camping/backpacking?

Angel

I live in Charlottesville va and am looking for a good place to go camping or backpacking. I want something secluded. No pay camping or designated campsites.

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Do you really have to ask that question? You have the Appalachian Trail practically in your back yard. If you want to avoid the permits and restricted camping of the SNP go on down to pearisburg which according to yahoo maps is about 3 hours from charlottesville, from there to waynesboro would give you a good 225 miles on the trail and you have many other places to start closer if you don't want that kind of distance.

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