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

[dicentra]

A few more thoughts...
 
A pringles can (or something similar) is great for packing things that would get crummy - cookies, crackers etc.  After a few days on the trail it isn't gonna matter if things have turned into crumbs. It will still taste good... and have the same amount of calories. LOL.

~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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