[pct-l] Op-Sack Study

[Brick Robbins]

I miss having Mendo Rider, jumping in about now, to defend his
favorite product, the OpSack.

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Jeffrey Olson
<jjolson60 at centurylink.net> wrote:
> My experience with op-sacks is they were pretty worthless.  I was as
> careful as I could be handling brand new ones and filling them with my
> extra food.  I put them in the trunk of my car and hiked for a week.  I
> came back and a mouse/mice had nibble into almost all my snacks. One for
> the mice.  I've also noted mice don't like to move from their known
> paths. I've camped and had them run across my face/body until i shifted
> my bag a couple feet...
>
> Jeffrey Olson
> Rapid City, SD
>
> On 8/21/2013 11:38 AM, Dan Welch wrote:
>> There is an interesting study on Backpacking Lite that tested Op-Sack bags
>> against ordinary ziplocks.  They used K-9s trained to find illicit drugs and
>> placed illicit drugs into these bags in lockers at a girls university for
>> the dogs to locate.  Bottom line - the Op-sacks appeared to do no better
>> than the ziplocks - 84 seconds vs 86 seconds to find the stash.
>>
>> They took great care to prevent contamination of the outside of the bags,
>> using surgical gloves and multiple people to carefully load the bags.  This
>> is certainly more care than the average backpacker would use.  To eliminate
>> social cues, they made sure the K9 handlers did not know the location of the
>> drugs.  It looked like a pretty good study overall...
>>
>> Anyway, if you have a BPL subscription you can judge for yourself - it
>> requires a membership to read.  However, it appears investing in Op-Sacks vs
>> using ziplocks for critter deterrence may not be justified...  The link is
>> below.
>>
>> http://www.backpackinglight.com/cgi-bin/backpackinglight/odor_proof_bags_stu
>> dy.html#.UhT1lMzD9jo
>>
>> Timberline
>>
>
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