Cal BrannockFrom the Cal Brannock channel on YouTube

For anyone who sleeps where bears live

Where I Would Never Sleep, and Where I Sleep Instead

Yellowstone, Glacier, Alaska and Montana, place by place, with the case files behind each one. Then how to read a campsite before you choose it: the sign on the ground, the food rule, the distances you can pace off, and the bear-spray record.

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224,000+views on Cal's Alaska and Yellowstone Never Sleep videos

19 case filesfrom Glacier in 1967 to Banff in 2023

2 h 43 minread aloud, every chapter its own track

Why this book

You pitched the tent on the flattest spot. So does everybody.

You get in late and tired, and there is one level piece of ground by the water. You put the tent there. Then you lie awake and run down every snapped branch, because nobody ever taught you what that ground was telling you before you unrolled the bag.

Go through the cases where it went wrong and it stops looking like bad luck. The same few things show up in the record again and again: where the kitchen was, where the food was, what the people were doing right before.

This book is that pattern, place by place and case by case. Then it is the plain method for choosing a camp, in distances you can pace off before dark.

What is in the book

The places, the cases, and the method

The five things every place on the never-sleep list has in common.
Yellowstone, Glacier, Alaska and Montana, place by place: Glacier in August 1967, Kaflia Bay in October 2003, the Hulahula River, Ovando.
What people were doing right before an attack: alone, quiet in the cover, running, walking toward what the bear is keeping, getting up too soon.
Where I sleep instead: the hundred big steps downwind, and the triangle between where you cook, where the food is and where you sleep.
The count I wait after a bear leaves, and the hour I will not ride timber.
The bear-spray record: more than nine in ten, and why one in seven sprayed themselves.
Reading sign: fresh scat from old with the moisture read, grizzly from black bear, and a rub tree that is still in use.
Picking up a cold blood trail and knowing which way it is headed.

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A look at the pages

What changes at camp

The way most people camp

With the book

You take the flattest spot by the water.

You know the five things that make a site a bad one before you unload.

The kitchen, the food and the tent are all in one place.

Three points, a hundred big steps apart, paced off.

You find a pile on the trail and keep walking.

You know if it is an hour old or a week old, and whose it is.

The bear spray is somewhere in the pack.

You have done the practice pull in the yard, and you know the record.

Every snapped branch is a guess.

You know why you chose that ground.

Who it is for

This book is for you if

You camp, hunt, fish or hike where bears and cougars live, or someone you love does.
You watched the Never Sleep videos and want the places, the cases and the method in one piece.
You would sooner listen in the truck than read.
You want the record with the sources named.

It is not for you if

You want a gun and caliber guide. This book is about ground, sign and distance.
You want a paper book in the mail. This one is digital, and you can print it.
You want horror stories. The cases are here to show the pattern.

The offer

The audiobook, the book and the case files

The audiobook: 2 hours 43 minutes, every chapter its own track, plus the whole book as one file	$19 alone
The book: 19 chapters, a 74-page PDF for any screen or printer	$19 alone
The Record: 19 case files, Glacier 1967 to Banff 2023, with the sources named	included
Bought one at a time	$38
Together	$29

Get the Audiobook and Book · $29

Pay once In your email in a minute 30-day money back

This is a digital audiobook and book. You listen or read on your phone, tablet or computer, or print it at home. Nothing is mailed.

How it works

Pay onceWith a card, through Gumroad. Nothing monthly, and nothing is mailed.

It is in your email in a minuteThe receipt has your link. It opens on a phone, tablet or computer. Nothing to install.

Press play, or readListen on the drive in. Keep the book on your phone in camp.

What people write under Cal's videos

“Went to Alaska in 1995 with my wife. We stayed in tent most of the time, sometimes being the only persons in the campground. I shudder to think we did that. Never again in bear country.”Under Why I Would Never Sleep in Alaska's Backcountry

“I would like to take my boys camping more but don’t like the idea of sleeping in a tent in bear country.”Under Why I Would Never Sleep in Alaska's Backcountry

“I hiked in Denali Park. Had the bear-proof food container. Cooked & ate 1/4 mile from where I slept. Saw plenty of bears. Kept my distance. Was completely ignored by bears.”Under Why I Would Never Sleep in Alaska's Backcountry

“I spent 2 months in Alaska and Canada , saw 4 grizzlies approx. 100yds away, practiced all of your 5 criteria. One sow walked through my camp and stared at us(two) apparently curious. We left the area at first light.…”Under Why I Would Never Sleep in Yellowstone's Backcountry

“Glacier national park -- sleeping in a tent trailer -- bear came into the camp at night and rubbed up against the tent...scared us to death...never again.”Under Why I Would Never Sleep in Alaska's Backcountry

“Very informative video. Thank you!”Under Why I Would Never Sleep in Yellowstone's Backcountry

Real comments left under Cal's videos on YouTube, copied as written. They are about the videos, not the book. Long ones are cut where you see “…”.

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A word from Cal

Most people think a bad night in bear country is bad luck. Go through the record and you stop believing in luck. The ground told them, and nobody had taught them to read it.

I put the places, the cases and the method in one book, so you can listen to it on the drive in and pace off your camp before dark.

Cal

Cal Brannock is the narrator of the Cal Brannock channel on YouTube, and he is a character. The cases come from public records: park and agency reports, court and news accounts, and the published Alaska bear studies, each named where it is used. The audiobook voice is AI-generated.

Questions people ask

Is this a paper book?

No. It is a digital audiobook and book. You get a link by email the moment you pay, and you can listen or read on a phone, tablet or computer, or print the pages at home.

I am not good with computers. Will I manage?

If you can open an email, you can open this. Press the link in your receipt and it opens. There is nothing to install.

How do I listen?

Press play on your download page, or save the chapters to your phone and listen in the truck.

Will I be charged again?

No. It is one payment. There is no subscription and nothing monthly.

What if I lose the file?

Keep your receipt email. The link in it works as many times as you like.

Why is this not just in the videos?

A video covers one place. The book puts the four regions, the nineteen cases and the camp method side by side, so you can see the pattern and take it with you.

What if I don't like it?

Reply to the receipt email within 30 days and you get your money back. No questions.

Something else, or trouble with your download? Write to [email protected].

The audiobook, the book and the case files

The audiobook: 2 hours 43 minutes, every chapter its own track, plus the whole book as one file	$19 alone
The book: 19 chapters, a 74-page PDF for any screen or printer	$19 alone
The Record: 19 case files, Glacier 1967 to Banff 2023, with the sources named	included
Bought one at a time	$38
Together	$29

Get the Audiobook and Book · $29

Pay once In your email in a minute 30-day money back

This is a digital audiobook and book. You listen or read on your phone, tablet or computer, or print it at home. Nothing is mailed.