Yuck!!! I was camping on the Macah indian reservation once and a dead grey whale washed up on the beach about 300 yards up wind from where we were staying. When I woke up in the morning and stood up I almost puked from the smell. From ground level to about two feet above the ground you could not smell it but when you stood up, OH MY God!! We spend the first 20 minutes crawling and breaking camp as we crawled then got the heck out of there.