Bear Canisters to be Required on Parts of the AT

[HooKooDooKu]

So an Ursack with aluminum liner is a "hard-sided" canister? According to Merriam-Webster dictionary, a canister is described simply as "cylindrical container". Because i rather keep my Allmitey with the liner than carrying a bear canister.

Before you start throwing out definitions... you first need to determine what the "rules" are for where ever you might be going that requires a "bear canister".

For example, I found the regulations for bear canisters for the Adirondacks that read in part:

"a commercially made container constructed of solid, non-pliable material manufactured for the specific purpose of resisting entry by bears."

I think a bag around an aluminum liner fails that description in two regards:
1. The ends of the cylinder are still "sides" of the device and they are not "solid".
2. The liner isn't even a solid cylinder. It's (if like the ursack) a sheet of aluminum rolled up in a cylinder. So that "cylinder" is pliable.