[pct-l] Food storage in non-bear areas

[CHUCK CHELIN]

Good morning, Gerry,

In areas where my food isn’t in a bear ‘can I keep it in my pack right at
the head of my sleeping bag.  Even though I don’t use an enclosed tent it
probably helps that I camp alone, avoiding the large, well-used campsites
where varmints may have learned to forage.  Also, I seldom eat where I
sleep.

In the still of the night I occasionally hear little rodent-creatures
scurrying around but after many hundreds of days and thousands of miles I’ve
never experienced any damage, and have only been annoyed by them twice:  Once
in S. Oregon I heard scratching which I thought came from my pack but turned
to be from under my ground cloth.  Another time in Washington a little
varmint persisted in running around on top of the outside of my sleeping
bag.  A thump of the fist from the inside out bounced him off the underside
of the tarp – else he might have gone into low earth orbit.


Steel-Eye

Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT – 1965

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On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Gerry Zamora <gerry0625 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Are rodents that bad that just hanging in non bear areas is not enough?
> Anyone sleep with theirs pack in non bear areas?
> On Feb 12, 2011 6:31 AM, "Mike Chapman" <altathunder76 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Try plastic mayo jars.
> >
> > On 2/11/11, Jacob Gallagher <jacobpgallagher at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> How do you deal with food storage in areas without bears? I'd rather not
> >> have some rodent eating its way through my pack and the ursack minor
> seems
> >> like a lot of money to keep out squirrels.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Jacob
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