[pct-l] bear canisters too small for long stretches on PCT?

[aslive at charter.net]

Two Important considerations are: 1) packaging. I always repackage
everything in a plastic bag where the air has been vacuumed out of it.
2) dehydrated food. The water in your food takes up room and adds to
the weight. I either go with the stuff from REI or some other source
or make my own. This helps quite a bit.

	-----------------------------------------From: "William E Frenette" 
To: 
Cc: 
Sent: 23-Mar-2018 17:47:37 +0000
Subject: Re: [pct-l] bear canisters too small for long stretches on
PCT?

 Hi in 2014 My Granddaughter & I did K M south to Whitney & returned,
18 days. I had the BV 450 & She had the 500. 1st day of food was
outside the canister, the last day we were out but had plenty for the
trip-don't know how much you eat but we did it.

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 On Friday, March 23, 2018 Richard Sturm  wrote:
 Regarding bear canisters the larger 2 lb 9 oz BV500 supposedly holds
7 days of food, per the manufacturer (and this is written on the box
it comes in). I can only get about 5 days of food into mine including
packaging. You'd have to dump all your food together out of the
packages to fit in 7 days, right?

 Even if you can fit in 5-7 days worth of food, the distance between
resupplies in the Sierras can be 10 days from what I can see, at least
at my slow hiking pace. Doesn't this force many hikers to "cheat" and
carry a separate food supply kept outside the approved canister? It
wouldn't be practical to have two canisters. One might consider the
lighter Ursack (about 8-13 oz, depending on the model) as a backup to
the canister, but apparently the local rules don't approve of that.

 How do other hikers handle this issue?

 Thanks,

 RS

 r-sturm at msn.com

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