[pct-l] Ursack in SoCal?

[Sir Mixalot]

If all you care for is safety, it's probably safe enough to sleep with your
food.  That's not why I use an Ursack.  I use it for rodents.  I've had a
mouse smell through multiple layers of Ziploc brand freezer bags and
eventually get into my food even though I was sleeping with it.  Several
weeks later I was using an Ursack and left it hanging in the mountains as I
left the trail for a week to attend kickoff and do some other things, but
even with all that time my food wasn't compromised.


On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 2:16 PM, rbelshee <rbelshee at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Bears will smell your food regardless of precautions.
>
> In the few areas where bears are habituated to humans (e.g. Yosemite) use
> the provided steel bear food boxes or bear canisters. Everywhere else sleep
> with your food and bears will not pursue it.
>
> In Washington the problem will be mice, whose sense of smell is 200 times
> better than humans (though still a tenth of a bears). Enough layers of
> freezer Ziploc bags will block the smell sufficiently. I had mice standing
> on my food bag looking around for food and give up and leave. I used three
> layers of freezer Ziploc bags and then two layers of trash compactor bags.
>
> Rod "Steady" Belshee
> hikepaddle.blogspot.com
>
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