Bear canister or nylon cord (for hanging bag)

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10.07.2010 (59 Days Ago)

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Bear canister or nylon cord (for hanging bag) - advice

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When you go in a trip and sleep in a tent, make sure you can protect against wild animals, and hide your food, toiletries and garbage. Too many tourists have learned this lesson the hard way.

Here are some ways on how to protect against wild animals hiding food:

Bear-Resistant Canisters (bear canister)
It is an hard-sided containers where you put your food and garbage to protect it to not be stolen by bears. A bear canister have like 2-4 lb (1-2 kg) and you can store inside 400 - 900 in³ (6 - 15 liters).

- How to pack a canister:
- Choose the right foods
- Do not take more food than you need, plan out all meals (first lunch and dinner you can carry outside of canister)
- Make sure all food, toiletries and garbage will fit inside the canister in the first night.
- Make sure that over night the canister and place where you prepare the food is at least 50 feet (15.5 meters) from the place you will sleep.

Hanging bag system:
If you go into an area less visited by wild animals, and sleeping near some trees, then bear canister is not required, and we can hang the food overnight in tree (we only need a rope and stuff sack).

- Bear Bag Hanging Systems goes something like this:
- Put all your food, toiletries and garbage into a sack.
- Tie one end of the rope to the stuff sack and the other end of the rope around a rock.
- Now find the perfect tree (be at least 50 feet (15.5 meters) from the place you will sleep, to have a branch about 15 feet off the ground and to support your bag weight).
- Now throw the rock towards the branch, pull up your bag over the branch and tie the end of the rope to the tree.
- The only problem in this method is: it is possible the animals chew the cord attached to the tree trunk

- The Counterbalance Method of hanging bag in tree goes something like this:
- This method solve the problem that the animals chew the cord attached to the tree trunk.
- You repeat all the steps from the last method, but you will not tie the end of the rope to the tree and you will need two stuff sack full with food (weight should be similar).
- Then pull the stuff sack up to the branch, and tie the other stuff sack as high as possible on the other end of the rope
- Then you using a trekking pole (if you are not tall enough stand on the shoulders of a partner) and raise the bag (the gravity will drop down the other one) until the two stuff sack are equal in height.
- The bags must be suspended at least 10 feet (3 meters) above the ground so you need a branch that is at 25 feet (7.5 meters) above the ground

- The PCT Method (because it was first used on the Pacific Crest Trail)
To use this method you need the following components: food storage bag, 40 feet of hanging rope, keychain carabiner, small stuff sack for a rock (rock sack) and a pencil-sized twig about 4-6 inches long.
- The system goes something like this:
- Tie one end of the cord to the draw cord of the rock sack.
- At the other end of the rope make a loop and clip the carabiner through it
- In the rock sack insert a rock and throw it over a branch (15-20 feet (4.5-6 meters) high), after remove the rock.
- Tie the stuff sack (with food, toiletries and garbage) to the carabiner, then clip the rock sack end of the cord through the carabiner
- Pull up your stuff sack with food over the branch, and then take the twig and tie a clove hitch around the twig as far as possible (on the rock sack end of the cord).
- And when you let go of the cord, the twig catches the carabiner and the stuff sack with food will remain at least 10 feet (3 meters) above the ground.

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