Mountain Living
Special Care when Living in the Mountains
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Trash Cans at Home
Secure your trash cans at home.
Keep trash and recyclables safe locked inside your home or a sturdy locked garage or outbuilding constructed of heavy wood or metal.
Do not leave any trash outside overnight. Even empty bottles cans packages and recyclables have odors that attract bears.
Do not leave your garage doors open.
LOCK your car doors, because bears can smell that food wrapper from you cheese burger!
Trash Pickup
Trash pickup is at Maxwell Hill road Above our community mailboxes.
Take trash cans down the morning of pickup.
Taking them the night before will almost always result in a bear getting into the trash and creating a mess that your neighbors will need to cleanup.
Secure your trash cans. Use a secure bear can (available from trash services) or secure the lid with a bungee cord. This may not stop a hungry bear but will stop trash from blowing around when the can is knocked over.
Pick up your cans before dark on pick up day.
If you will not be at home, ask a neighbor to pickup the cans for you.
Mail & Parcels
Try to retreive your mail and parcels everyday.
Since our boxes are in a public place, mail is exposed to thieves and damage.
Almost all delivery services have tracking where you can signup to get notifications by text or email.
There are also special services that scan your email for notices and combine them into one service.
Always pickup pet food the same day, because bears can smell it!
Holiday time creates issues with overflow packages. Please remember to check the parcel boxes. You may have received a gift and do not even know it’s there.
Theft
Everyday is an opportunity for thieves to take your mail, property and medications!
We have tried to secure our mai location with security lights outside and with a security camera and posted notices.
In reality, thieves are bold and they are difficult to deter.
Ever some delivery service drives take package that have already been delivered.
BE VIGILENT – PICK UP MAIL AND PACKAGES EVERYDAY.
Stop your mail when you are out of town. If you get a delivery notice while you are out of town, ask a neighbor to get the parcel for you and hold it for your retune.