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I'm new in Camping, and recently I have camped in France, in the Vosges region, in the locality called "Le bonhomme".

Well it's not the pure wilderness but it was very unusual for me, as it was nobody around and I was in the forest.

So I set up the camp, it was just for the night so I didn't make any fire pit, but just a tent.

When I was trying to sleep, I have eared some grunting, and some scratch on the ground. In this situation I was really stressed but well, I didn't close my eyes because there was those sounds during the whole night, and just near my tent. Sometimes something was scratching the tent canvas. I was very unconfortable with this. I took care to have nothing to eat for not drawing attention of any animals. But there was there anyway.

After this, I searched what was the wildlife in this region, and there was grey wolves, wild boars and some boreal lynx in this region.

I'm pretty sure that there was at one moment some wild boars (Loud noise, big branch cracking) and at another moment some stealthy animals like the grey wolves, maybe curious about the tent ? (Soft noise, something was sniffing the tent but really discreet).

So now I have two related questions:

• Is there some risks in those kinds of situation?
• Can I leave the tent in the middle of the night for seeing what's around without getting harmed?

I'm new in Camping, and recently I have camped in France, in the Vosges region, in the locality called "Le bonhomme".

Well it's not the pure wilderness but it was very unusual for me, as it was nobody around and I was in the forest.

So I set up the camp, it was just for the night so I didn't make any fire pit, but just a tent.

When I was trying to sleep, I have eared some grunting, and some scratch on the ground. In this situation I was really stressed but well, I didn't close my eyes because there was those sounds during the whole night, and just near my tent. Sometimes something was scratching the tent canvas. I was very unconfortable with this. I took care to have nothing to eat for not drawing attention of any animals. But there was there anyway.

After this, I searched what was the wildlife in this region, and there was grey wolves, wild boars and some boreal lynx in this region.

I'm pretty sure that there was at one moment some wild boars (Loud noise, big branch cracking) and at another moment some stealthy animals like the grey wolves, maybe curious about the tent ? (Soft noise, something was sniffing the tent but really discreet).

All the forest was frozed (it was -5°C)

So now I have two related questions:

• Is there some risks in those kinds of situation?
• Can I leave the tent in the middle of the night for seeing what's around without getting harmed?

I'm new in Camping, and recently I have camped in France, in the Vosges region, in the locality called "Le bonhomme".

Well it's not the pure wilderness but it was very unusual for me, as it was nobody around and I was in the forest.

So I set up the camp, it was just for the night so I didn't make any fire pit, but just a tent.

When I was trying to sleep, I have eared some grunting, and some scratch on the ground. In this situation I was really stressed but well, I didn't close my eyes because there was those sounds during the whole night, and just near my tent. Sometimes something was scratching the tent canvas. I was very unconfortable with this. I took care to have nothing to eat for not drawing attention of any animals. But there was there anyway.

After this, I searched what was the wildlife in this region, and there was grey wolves, wild boars and some boreal lynx in this region.

I'm pretty sure that there was at one moment some wild boars (Loud noise, big branch cracking) and at another moment some stealthy animals like the grey wolves, maybe curious about the tent ? (Soft noise, something was sniffing the tent but really discreet).

So now I have a few question:

• Is there some risks in those kinds of situation?
• Can I leave the tent in the middle of the night for seeing what's around without getting harmed?
• Can a wild boars charge the tent because he sees a threat about it?
• Is the wolf in those region dangerous?
• How to keep away those animals from my camp without setting a fire?
• Do you have some tips against wildlife when camping in wild areas?

I'm new in Camping, and recently I have camped in France, in the Vosges region, in the locality called "Le bonhomme".

Well it's not the pure wilderness but it was very unusual for me, as it was nobody around and I was in the forest.

So I set up the camp, it was just for the night so I didn't make any fire pit, but just a tent.

When I was trying to sleep, I have eared some grunting, and some scratch on the ground. In this situation I was really stressed but well, I didn't close my eyes because there was those sounds during the whole night, and just near my tent. Sometimes something was scratching the tent canvas. I was very unconfortable with this. I took care to have nothing to eat for not drawing attention of any animals. But there was there anyway.

After this, I searched what was the wildlife in this region, and there was grey wolves, wild boars and some boreal lynx in this region.

I'm pretty sure that there was at one moment some wild boars (Loud noise, big branch cracking) and at another moment some stealthy animals like the grey wolves, maybe curious about the tent ? (Soft noise, something was sniffing the tent but really discreet).

So now I have two related questions:

• Is there some risks in those kinds of situation?
• Can I leave the tent in the middle of the night for seeing what's around without getting harmed?