[pct-l] sleeping with your food everywhere except in the Sierra

[Ernie Castillo]

OK, I have to admit I was a tonto when it came to hanging food. I didn't do it except for one occasion when I caught up to Beth and Eli on the 1980 trek and they hung their food bags and expected me to do the same. The fact that we were camping in an area of Northern California that I recall was named "Bear Valley" convinced me to follow suit.

Ernie Castillo
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> Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 21:02:08 -0800
> From: will.hiltz at gmail.com
> To: muckraker2 at yahoo.com
> CC: pct-l at backcountry.net
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] sleeping with your food everywhere except in the Sierra
> 
> If you don't put your food right up against the tent wall, rodents aren't
> usually an issue.
> 
> 
> Sure, bears could come around, but they could come around anyways. Its way
> better (from both your perspective AND the bears/rodents) to have your food
> with you and be ready to defend it if necessary than to do a poor job of
> storing it away from where you are sleeping and having critters or bears get
> into it overnight.
> 
> Those of you who don't sleep with your food in the non-canister areas--
> might I ask how you do store your food in that case? As has been discussed
> in this forum numerous times before, I firmly believe that hanging is a bad
> idea on the PCT and rarely, if ever, done properly by through hikers.
> 
> 
> Easy
> 
> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Jereen Anderson <jereenanderson at yahoo.com>wrote:
> 
> > >From MendoRider,
> > I would not recommend sleeping with your food. Along the PCT there are
> > bears in other places than just in the Sierra. You don't want to wake up
> > some night to bruin sniffing at your tent. And bears are not the only
> > critters that will want your food. Ever heard of rodents? They will chew
> > right through your tent to get at your food. I always store my food in an
> > OPSAK. They are 100% odor-proof - will not let ANY odors escape. I used them
> > in all three states during my PCT ride. You can get them from REI or order
> > them on line.
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