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Posted by lambertiana on June 10, 2007 at 6:04:34 pm EDT
In reply to Bear canisters revisited (please) posted by Karman on April 1, 2007 at 10:49:50 am EDT

I do pretty much all of my backpacking in the Sierras, so I have gotten used to the idea of carrying the regular canisters. I will trust them much more than any type of food hanging, the bears have learned how to get hung food in many areas. And in one location it appears that they even learned how to open the old style of Bear Vault canisters. The only time I have seen food loss with canisters was when some of my scouts left their canisters unlocked (for some reason they thought that the bears wouldn't come out in the rain, and didn't bother to close their canisters at night).

A warning to Ursack users - even if the bear can't actually get your food, the Ursack does not protect the food from being all mashed up by the bear chewing on the bag. So you may still have food, but it might be a mash of everything in the bag.

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