[pct-l] Bear Canisters: Good for Bear, not for Hungry Hiker?

[Brick Robbins]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:34 AM,  <gary_schenk at verizon.net> wrote:
>  . Because there's only one sure fire way to protect bears from your food.
>

Actually, Bear Boxes work pretty well too, and bear cans are not fool
proof, as the fools that use them fail to close them properly on a
fairly regular basis. Also they physically fail and get opened by
bears every now and then.

But in any event, this really is a non issue because there is only a
fairly short section of the PCT that passes through a bear-bear-can
required area (SEKI on the south to Yosemite on the north), and really
there only one section where bear boxes are so far apart (50 miles -
Toulomne to the north boundary of YNP) that you can't travel from box
to box in a day and sleep next to the boxes.

It is not that big an issue to carry a can in this section,