Bear cans or hang food? help
Should I plan on using bear cans or hanging food? If I do hang food what should I plan on packing to make that happen? Any advice is welcome!!
Usually chipmunk bagging is enough. Just bring some 550 cord and tie your food bag to it. Bear can is overkill.
Hang your food, if you want. I got to the point where I hung my food in the shelter from the mouse lines. If the bear wants your food, they will get it. At least if you hang it in the shelter with your camera near by you'll get a nice photo.
Kirby
Yes, it's unlikely that a bear will get your food, but red squirrels here in New England are pretty adept at it. Luckily they sleep when you do, but if they get up before you........Originally Posted by KG4FAM
. Raccoons are also pretty wily.
If you do decide to hang your food from a tree, it would be a good idea to learn the "Pacific Crest Trail" method of hanging so the animals can't readily get to your line to chew through it.
If you're staying at or near a shelter with bear cables, use them. They're there because problem bears frequent the area.
Imo, you're lucky to see a bear anywhere on the AT (NJ being the biggest possible exception).
As I live, declares the Lord God, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn back from his way and live. Ezekiel 33:11
Did Adam and Eve rest on the first Sabbath? Scripture only says that God did. Are we thinking yet?
sleeping with your food is the best method of protecting it from critters
Doesn't necessarily work for mice unless you stay awake all night. One guy in the Hundred Mile Wilderness (might've been Bronco) slept with his food bag in his vestibule, and the mice chewed right into it. We were about 50 yd. away from the shelter.
As I live, declares the Lord God, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn back from his way and live. Ezekiel 33:11
Did Adam and Eve rest on the first Sabbath? Scripture only says that God did. Are we thinking yet?
wolf! shes just a girl! im ashamed/highly amused with you!
" YOU'RE MAD!" "... Thank goodness for that, Because if I wasn't this would probably never work." AT thru hiker advice from CAPN jack sparrow
Just a girl??????
Better watch your back, Captain.
As I live, declares the Lord God, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn back from his way and live. Ezekiel 33:11
Did Adam and Eve rest on the first Sabbath? Scripture only says that God did. Are we thinking yet?
"its me front im worried about"Just a girl??????
Better watch your back, Captain.
" YOU'RE MAD!" "... Thank goodness for that, Because if I wasn't this would probably never work." AT thru hiker advice from CAPN jack sparrow
Assuming you're talking about the AT, no need for a bear-proof container. They're required in the National Parks in the Sierra Nevada on the PCT.
"Throw a loaf of bread and a pound of tea in an old sack and jump over the back fence." John Muir on expedition planning
The vestibule is not "inside your tent". I've never hung food, always keep it in my TENT (not vestibule), never had a mouse get in. I've had a mouse crawl over my tent, but never chew into my tent.
I have had things in my vestibule chewed up, here's a pic of my laces which were chewed by something over night while in my vestibule.
"The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible."
-- Paul Dirac
When you hang, you'll need a waterproof stuff sack of some kind to keep your food dry. I use a Sea to Summit bag, but OR makes some good light ones too.
Innovative hiking may be the answer. I met a guy on the PCT who wore all his stuff around his waste. That didn't work in the long run. A couple years ago a guy tried to move his stuff using a hand truck. That didn't work. I think I've got the answer. I have a plastic 55 gallon drum down in the barn. I think I'll just make a door in one end that locks. Then I'll throw all my gear and food into it and role it along the trail. That should work?
been done, superman
In 2005 there was a guy we dubbed "luggageman" who had a couple of rolling suitcases, as well as a couple of other bags. He would roll one suitcase with a bag on top, then turn around and go back for the other suitcase with another bag on top. It meant he was making 3 trips for any distance!Innovative hiking may be the answer. I met a guy on the PCT who wore all his stuff around his waste. That didn't work in the long run. A couple years ago a guy tried to move his stuff using a hand truck. That didn't work. I think I've got the answer. I have a plastic 55 gallon drum down in the barn. I think I'll just make a door in one end that locks. Then I'll throw all my gear and food into it and role it along the trail. That should work?
I would have made it only to the top of Kelly Knob. I'd abandon the second suitcase rather than go back down and climb it again. Actually, now that I think about it, Sassafras would have done it.
Frosty
Hanging your food with "Beer" cans is a better idea.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams
Bellhop could have also worked oo even bell boy
" YOU'RE MAD!" "... Thank goodness for that, Because if I wasn't this would probably never work." AT thru hiker advice from CAPN jack sparrow
22 years and 16,000 miles, never had a mammal get my chow in my tent. bronco who?
I hang my bear canister.
Others haven't been as fortunate.
This Bronco http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/member.php?u=12630
As I live, declares the Lord God, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn back from his way and live. Ezekiel 33:11
Did Adam and Eve rest on the first Sabbath? Scripture only says that God did. Are we thinking yet?
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