[pct-l] Whitney and one's pack?

[whitethunder10 at hotmail.com (Joseph Niemiec)]

I put my food in the bear box and left my tarp tent erect and put all the 
softgoods I wasan;t going to use in there...

mouse


>From: "Robert Ellinwood" <rellinwood@worldnet.att.net>
>To: <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
>Subject: [pct-l] Whitney and one's pack?
>Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 22:28:07 -0500
>
>Given these conditions:
>
>Bear boxes at Crabtree Mdws and Ranger Station are full, either with 
>other's
>packs or garbage...
>Bear-bagging in Ranger station vicinity no longer recommended (as I did 20
>yrs ago)...
>You camped at Guitar Lake or slightly higher...
>Marmots (attacking your pack, either singly or in squadrons) are an 
>issue...
>
>WHAT did you folks do with your packs while you climbed Whitney?????????
>
>Surely you didn't climb with a full pack?  Or did you?
>With all the people these days, is theft an issue during the day?
>
>Bury it under a pile of rocks off to the side somewhere and pray the 
>marmots
>attacked someone else's pack?
>
>What have you folks in recent times done with your packs while you climbed?
>Have most of you carried everything up with you to the summit?  (Pant,
>pant...)
>
>Dr Bob


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