[pct-l] Food Bags

[James F. Miller]

Most of the time, IF I've had a problem with animals and my food, its mice.
 
> Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:06:11 -0700
> From: gerry0625 at gmail.com
> To: atetuna at gmail.com
> CC: pct-l at backcountry.net
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Food Bags
> 
> 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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