What are the cans and bottles hanging from strings in the shelters used for?
What are the cans and bottles hanging from strings in the shelters used for?
Mouse trapezes.
Serious answer: you hang your food bag on the string, below the can. The can prevents mice from working their way down the string to your food.
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If you're referring to the tuna cans, they allegedly prevent mice from getting into your pack which hangs on the botton of the rope, usually on a small stick, a foot down or so from the can.
Do they work? Not if the mouse is determined.
BTW..I wouldn't hang my food bag there. I would hang it from a tree outside the shelter and use the strings inside to hang my pack to try to keep the little suckers out of it. Food hanging inside the shelter could attract more mice, coons, possums, skunks, bears and other critters who aren't already there. In the Smokies there are usually bear cables in trees to hang food and you'll get a ticket if a park ranger happens by resulting in a fine if your food isn't hung there unless you're either eating it or preparing it to eat or transporting it to another place. I think the fine for improper food storage in the GSMNP is up to 500$.
A somewhat primative telephone system...What are the cans and bottles hanging from strings in the shelters used for?
Formerly uhfox
Springer to Bear Mountain Inn, NY
N Adams, MA to Clarendon VT
Franconia Notch to Crawford Notch
The rangers in SNP take them down all the time and hikers put them back up. They want hikers using the bear poles.
In the New England they are good for hanging your boots so the porcupines don't eat them. Getting woken up by a porcupine chewing on the shelter might be funny, but if he's chewing on your boots it would be bad.
the ultra light crowd might fight you for themI believe that would be more like mouse jerky.
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