[pct-l] food containers when you don't need a bear vault?

[dicentra]

(on trips without a canister) I use zip lock FREEZER  bags (they are tougher) and usually carry an Ursack. Food typically goes in the center of my pack, packed tight so things don't shift around too much.

I don't have an answer for the 2nd part of your question.
 
~Dicentra


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--- On Tue, 9/23/08, Laura Newman <lanewman at mac.com> wrote:

From: Laura Newman <lanewman at mac.com>
Subject: [pct-l] food containers when you don't need a bear vault?
To: "pct-l" <pct-l at backcountry.net>
Date: Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 12:34 PM

As a girl who has mainly backpacked in the Sierras, I have always  
used bear canisters to hold my food and other stinky stuff.  As I  
daydream about not having to haul that thing for the entire 2,650  
miles it dawned on me that I don't know what to use for the other  
areas where a canister is not needed.

Any good suggestions to insure not ending up with a bag of crumbs for  
dinner or the possibility of spilling something all over one's gear?   
And how do you keep the critters out if using a stuff sack?  Lastly,  
is the point to start using it at Kennedy Meadows?  And when can one  
safely send that thing home?

Thanks in advance,

Laura
Class of 2009

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