[pct-l] Bear encounter before Kennedy Meadows

[Brick Robbins]

According to Mendo Rider, OpSacks are perfect.

On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Elisabeth M. Chaplin
<echaplin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dys-feng shui-nal,
>
> I had a mouse chew through a brand new "odor proof" OPSak my first night
> out of Kennedy Meadows (holding my "overflow" food that wouldn't fit into
> my bear canister). I was lucky to hear the rustling and shoo it away before
> he got to my food -- a couple a few nights behind me lost a significant
> amount of their overflow food to mice in the same spot, though I don't
> think they used an OPSak. I understand that I might have unintentionally
> scented the outside of my bag, but as a new bag on the first night out,
> that's as clean as it was going to get for the rest of its useful life.
>
> Just because they're labeled "odor proof" does not make them infallible or
> even what I would consider reliable as a system against critters of any
> size. YMMV. Granted, I still used them as a food holding bag for the
> entirety of my thru hike last summer -- their size and thickness were
> great! :)
>
> Cheers,
> Liz
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