[pct-l] bear canisters too small for long stretches on PCT?

[Jeffrey Olson]

Here's a map of bear boxes in the Sierra.

http://sierrawild.gov/media/foodstoragemap/Bear-Canister-Required-Area-ver8.pdf

Here's the latest canister requirements for the national parks.

https://www.nps.gov/seki/planyourvisit/bear_bc.htm

https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/bearcans.htm

Jeff...


On 3/23/2018 8:16 AM, jplynch at crosslink.net wrote:
> Katy has a great idea.  There are bear boxes at the Little Yosemite 
> Valley campground (which is the only one I know about).
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Katy Shaw
> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2018 10:09 AM
> To: jplynch at crosslink.net
> Cc: Richard Sturm ; pct-l at backcountry.net
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] bear canisters too small for long stretches on PCT?
>
> There are also several campsites in the Sierras that have bear boxes.  
> The first couple of days back on trail after a resupply, you can time 
> your stops so that you arrive at those campsites if you have too much 
> food that won’t fit into your canister. I saw several JMT hikers last 
> summer who employed this strategy.
>
> -Unicorn
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Mar 23, 2018, at 7:01 AM, <jplynch at crosslink.net> 
>> <jplynch at crosslink.net> wrote:
>>
>> One suggestion I've seen is to carry the first day's food outside of 
>> the canister, since it'll be eaten before nightfall. And for the last 
>> day, you don't need to carry food for dinner, since you'll be off the 
>> trail.
>>
>> -----Original Message----- From: Richard Sturm
>> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2018 9:58 AM
>> To: pct-l at backcountry.net
>> Subject: [pct-l] bear canisters too small for long stretches on PCT?
>>
>> Regarding bear canisters the larger 2 lb 9 oz BV500 supposedly holds 
>> 7 days of food, per the manufacturer (and this is written on the box 
>> it comes in). I can only get  about 5 days of food into mine 
>> including packaging.  You'd have to dump all your food together out 
>> of the packages to fit in 7 days, right?
>>
>>
>> Even if you can fit in 5-7 days worth of food, the distance between 
>> resupplies in the Sierras can be 10 days from what I can see, at 
>> least at my slow hiking pace. Doesn't this force many hikers to 
>> "cheat" and carry a separate food supply kept outside the approved 
>> canister?  It wouldn't be practical to have two canisters.  One might 
>> consider the lighter Ursack (about 8-13 oz, depending on the model) 
>> as a backup to the canister, but apparently the local rules don't 
>> approve of that.
>>
>>
>> How do other hikers handle this issue?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> RS
>>
>> r-sturm at msn.com
>>
>>
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