[pct-l] Food Bags

[Gerry Zamora]

So if not in a area with bears is it relatively safe to just leave your food
in your pack and leave your pack in your tent?  Sounds like a few people use
this method with out any issues while out of bear country of course.
Gerry0625
On Mar 25, 2011 1:50 PM, "Ate Tuna" <atetuna at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have had a mouse not only try to get into my food in that exact
situation,
> but had it succeed even though I shooed it away multiple times during the
> night...and I thought the rain and high winds that night would surely blow
> that critter off the side of the mountain. I was wrong.
>
> Now I use a regular Ursack all the time. An Ursack was good enough to
> protect my food when I left it on Apache Peak when I left the trail for a
> week to attend kickoff. I haven't use an Opsak, but I agree with those
that
> think I should.
>
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 8:02 AM, CHUCK CHELIN <steeleye at wildblue.net>
wrote:
>
>> I’ve never had lil' critters try to get into my food when it’s lying on
the
>> ground at the head of my bed -- and that’s while sleeping under the
stars.
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 9:29 PM, <dnielsen at djmurphycompany.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Just curious what people are using for food bags to keep the critters
>> out,
>> > other than at bear vault areas. Ursack, wire mesh bag, just hang it
etc.
>> > ???
>> >
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