Last hike out I had some critters chew through my food bag while hanging from the bear lines.
What types of protection do you guys use in the smokies? I've ordered a Rat Sack (metal mesh type cache bag). Just curious as to what others use.
Last hike out I had some critters chew through my food bag while hanging from the bear lines.
What types of protection do you guys use in the smokies? I've ordered a Rat Sack (metal mesh type cache bag). Just curious as to what others use.
For the last 6 years I have carried a dozen or so moth balls in a ziplock bag and hung above my food bag. I also put a few in my pack at night and have never had mouse chew on anything. Maybe I was just lucky, but I will continue to carry them until the mice prove that it does not work...........
I carry an old CD in the bottom of my pot. When I hang the bag up, I tie a small stick in the cord about a foot above the bag. I run the line through the CD's hole so that it makes a little barrier. Mice, squirrels and gremlins that come down the line hit the CD, and slide off. It's the same concept as the cans hanging all around the shelters........just 12 feet off the ground.
Sometimes in the middle of the night you can hear the little bastards hit the ground.
I don't own one of these yet but have read some pretty good reviews on the Ursack... Here's the link:
http://www.ursack.com/ursack-catalog.htm
Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love..... 1 Corinthians 16:13-14
Hang it PCT-style five feet away from a tree trunk, any closer and the squierls will jump to it.
I hang a bell from the rope above the bag It scares them away when they get near it.
Hang it at the end of my hammock.
SGT Rock
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My 2008 Trail Journal of the BMT/AT
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Not quite:
http://www.pineapplefish56.net/Scout...angingTech.pdf
DO try this at home, quite a bit of muscle memory involved, unless you want to impersonate all three stooges at once. Spectra line from Anti Gravity Gear or Gossamer Gear is a must. Tying that middle-of-the-line clove hitch standing on your tiptoes is a bit of a trick, but quite doable with practice.
I put my food inside tupper ware continers, and put these inside the food bags to hang up. I have never any critters, big or little, to open up any tupper ware.
Nope.
SGT Rock
http://hikinghq.net
My 2008 Trail Journal of the BMT/AT
BMT Thru-Hikers' Guide
-----------------------------------------
NO SNIVELING
... been doing the same thing -- glad to hear you haven't had any issues...
Lazarus