[pct-l] food storage strategy

[gschenk1 at roadrunner.com]

---- Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes <diane at santabarbarahikes.com> wrote: 
> Rodents are a problem on the Appalachian Trail, not really on the  
> PCT. I don't know what image you have of this so-called desert, but  
> you will find that you are among trees most of the time and at worst  
> among scrub some of the time. That said, I never hung my food. Always  
> slept with it. The exception being when I had a bear canister.

That's always worked for me. And if you leave food in camp while dayhiking somewhere, just hanging it off a boulder where the marmots can't get to it is fairly simple.

Gary