[pct-l] Another question re bear canisters

[John Abela]

I use the Bearikade Expedition and there I do not think I could get two
peoples worth of food into it for the Sierra region if I was taking cooked
food. Maybe, if neither of us ate like a goat, but even than I doubt it.
Considering the effort it would take to get to a town to resupply with more
food because you did not take enough, I fail to see how it would be worth
taking the chance.

If all I was taking was Muesli and dried fruit and pemmican bars... maybe. I
have never actually loaded it up to see exactly how much of those three
things I could stuff into it. Probably should, huh. Anybody else tried?



On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Paul Robison <paulrobisonhome at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Bigger question is,  could you fit enough food into one for the two of
> you...
>
> Echo and I have a bv500 and a bv450 and we can just barely fit 40,000
> calories between them ... Which is only 5 meager days for Sierra
> conditions...  We wish we'd gotten 2 bv500's
>
> Sent from my iPod
>
> On 2011-02-05, at 1:14 PM, Mike Yanasak <amuddler2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Silly me!  I neglected to pose another question re bear canister
> > requirements, so here goes:  If I am going to be hiking with my partner
> the
> > length
> > of the PCT, do each of us need to carry bear canisters, or could one
> expect
> > that the rangers would be OK with one canister for the two of us?
> > Thanks.
> > Amuddler
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