[pct-l] hanging food

[Sam Whited]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 12:57 PM, Herb Stroh <HStroh at sjmslaw.com> wrote:
> I know many just sleep with their food in all but mandatory bear can areas. But there are some sections of the PCT that have significant bear activity, but do not mandate a can. It is a good idea to have the tools and skills necessary to be able to hang your food in high-risk areas. Plus, the loss of food is not only an inconvenience to you--ultimately it could result in destruction of the bear.

Bear's aren't generally the thing I'm worried most about (althoug of
course I wouldn't want them getting my food either). I've had mice or
rats chew threw the footbox of my tent to get at some food I left
around once, and have come back to camp to find a racoon russtling
through my food bag or sniffing around teh campsight more than once.

Hanging food is trivial in most places and takes about 5 minutes at
the end of the day; the arguments against it as far as I can tell are
always like someone saying "I haven't been in a car accident in 10
years, therefore seatbelts are unnecessary" — it's a trivial action to
stop a, perhapse unlikely but with much worse consequences, problem.

—Sam