[pct-l] extra clothing (bears)

[Gary Wright]

On Feb 11, 2007, at 12:04 PM, William Skaggs wrote:
> In the High Sierra, it is required to carry some sort of approved
> bear-proof container.  Ideally you should do your cooking some  
> distance
> from your tent, and leave the food overnight some distance from both,
> but in practice, as far as I can tell, most people cook at their  
> campsites
> and leave the food 50-100 ft away.

My experience was that quite a few PCT hikers would stop for dinner
in the late afternoon and then hike on for another 1-2 hours to
camp.  This solves the "don't cook in your camp problem" quite nicely.

Gary Wright (Radar)