[pct-l] Food in tents

[Jeffrey Olson]

There are lots of variables to take into account.  Many have been 
mentioned.  Others include being aware of where you sleep.

If you stealth camp - meaning you don't camp where someone camps every 
night and do nothing but sleep and get up early and go - you are less 
likely to be bugged by animals.

If you don't eat where you camp, you are less likely to be bugged by 
animals.

If you carry the bear cannister in bear required areas, you are less 
likely to be bugged by bears.

New hikers will make choices based on experience, which comes from 
spending week after week on the trail.  I do summer hikes with a friend 
who's been backpacking for 20 years and he always hangs his food.  I've 
got over 400 nights of camping while backpacking and sleep with my food 
outside of national parks/bear protected areas.

I was lucky enough to see eight bears in WAshington in June 2005 on a 
SOBO.  All of them ran when they noticed me - sprinted if a bear can 
sprint.

Jeff
Rapid City, SD


On 2/7/2013 9:30 AM, Douglas Tow wrote:
> Good morning!
>
> My question to post-ers who testify to safely keeping food in the tent
> with them over many, many miles of hiking is:  Do you recommend to new
> hikers that they do the same?
>
> Doug
>