[pct-l] Food Bags

[CHUCK CHELIN]

Good evening, Gery,

The entire PCT corridor is “bear country”, with probably a good many more in
population than you would ever guess.  “Bear country” isn’t the problem; the
problem is “habituated-bear country”, i.e, where lots of tourists – and
other irresponsible campers – have let bears get into people-food, and
henceforth into a life of crime, sometimes for several generations.

The big California National Parks are great at not only attracting lots of
visitors, but they also ban hunting.  N. California, Oregon, and Washington
allow hunting so bears have learned over the last 12,000 years to keep their
heads down when they encounter humans.

 Steel-Eye

Hiking the Pct since before it was the PCT – 1965

http://www.trailjournals.com/steel-eye
http://www.trailjournals.com/SteelEye09

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Gerry Zamora <gerry0625 at gmail.com> wrote:

> So if not in a area with bears is it relatively safe to just leave your
> food in your pack and leave your pack in your tent?  Sounds like a few
> people use this method with out any issues while out of bear country of
> course.
> Gerry0625
> On Mar 25, 2011 1:50 PM, "Ate Tuna" <atetuna at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have had a mouse not only try to get into my food in that exact
> situation,
> > but had it succeed even though I shooed it away multiple times during the
> > night...and I thought the rain and high winds that night would surely
> blow
> > that critter off the side of the mountain. I was wrong.
> >
> > Now I use a regular Ursack all the time. An Ursack was good enough to
> > protect my food when I left it on Apache Peak when I left the trail for a
> > week to attend kickoff. I haven't use an Opsak, but I agree with those
> that
> > think I should.
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 8:02 AM, CHUCK CHELIN <steeleye at wildblue.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I’ve never had lil' critters try to get into my food when it’s lying on
> the
> >> ground at the head of my bed -- and that’s while sleeping under the
> stars.
> >>
> >> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 9:29 PM, <dnielsen at djmurphycompany.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Just curious what people are using for food bags to keep the critters
> >> out,
> >> > other than at bear vault areas. Ursack, wire mesh bag, just hang it
> etc.
> >> > ???
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
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