Re: [Paddlewise] Bear Bags

I'd far rather use an Ursack (haven't yet) than a cylinder. I'd far rather 
bears had not been educated by generations of careless campers so I could 
use a plain old nylon sack too. The cylinders are mandated in some areas 
and I just hate that, and generally end up breaking the law for one reason 
or another. But in the defense, those expensive, bulky cans are about as 
close as you can get to bear proof, and clean up quickly when covered with 
a quart of bear spit. Hopefully you can field clean Ursacks sufficiently 
to get rid of the smell. I do intend to try one though.

 I've never in all my years of setting up camps lost my personal food to a 
bear. I've always been real careful, but I have had one, in Camp 4 (aka 
Sunnyside) in Yosemite, drink all my beer one night. One can at a time: I 
watched the whole show, and he WOULD NOT be budged until they were all 
gone.

Kevin 


Ursack   It's handy because you don't have to be that meticulous when 
hanging the bag, and there are
a number of locations where the trees don't cooperate...and there are no 
cliffs to hang food over, etc. The sack packs up and stows much easier 
than
the cylinders, too. 




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