Ursack: successful on AT?

[Hana_Hanger]

[quote=sixhusbands;582435]I have a pack of the scented dryer sheets ( any brand will work) with me at all times. They repell the bugs, keep rodents and bears from your food stash and I put one in my clothes bag to keep them more tolarable.

Wow what a great idea...I will try that this time.
I had a Ursack S29 the newest one and loved it.
We had no worries and slept well at night.
Smashed...it all gets smashed anyhow

We did have one bear visit us ...well my son's tent...his own fault...brushed his teeth too close to his tent.

They work great for the AT for all the mice and little critters.
No longer approved at the moment for the PCT or JMT though.

[BrianLe]

"No longer approved at the moment for the PCT or JMT though"

It's not that bad; I'll start thru-hiking the PCT later this month and plan to use an Ursack for over half of it, and will use nothing at all for the first 700 miles or so.

For the JMT portion, indeed, a bear can is now required for much of this, but the specific details are a bit more complicated.

[AlwaysHiking]

1) Ursack.com also sells a lightweight aluminum insert that makes them a regulatorily-compliant container for the Sierras. Presumably it makes them substantially more able to protect food from bear damage.

Not this year they aren't.

http://www.ursack.com/ursack-update.htm

[Phil1959]

The only time,I had trouble was when I hung my food! Most nights I slept with it,never even had a mouse show up! Tho I am the only one who had 2 boar show up when in Tenn,but I was eating a can of sardines and they were having trouble finding food.Not a good combination!

[bigcranky]

I spent a few days in Yosemite last summer, and there was 1 guy with an Ursack. Bears visited camp and took off with his Ursack full of food. When he eventually retrieved it, the bears had not gotten IN to the bag, but the food was all completely smashed, ruining at least half of his food supply for the next few days of his trip. If a bear gets a hold of your Ursack, most of your food will be destroyed, which kinda makes them useless in my opinion.

While this is certainly true in Yosemite, their bears are very, very different from those along the AT. For now, anyway.