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

[Tortoise]

depending on how much food you have to protect ---
I store crushable food in my cooking pot and carry my stove, etc. 
separately.  stove won't crush and this way adds no additional weight.

Tortoise

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Laura Newman wrote:
> 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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