There seem to be a lot more food storage problems there with bears and mice than I'm used to up north. I'm grateful that in the smoky's I can just use the hanger to string up my bag at the shelters, but reading all of the different posts, I'm a little confused about the best way to do this. To avoid mice chewing up my gear, I wondered if I should just hang the food bag, not my pack and use a couple layers of garbage bags for the food bag because I would rather sacrifice a little food than my backpack or a good gear bag.
And should I try to figure out how to rig up one of those tuna cans or CDs to hang above the bag to ward off mice from dropping down on it? Thanks