Any good food storage systems out there? Wondering if I should store my food in a bear bag, or anything that will keep the wildlife out of it. Would a regular sleeping bag stuff sack suffice?
Aphex
Food Storage - Appalachian Trail
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#2
Bear bags are too heavy. Recycle your town stop grocery sacks, double layering will last the week. Then retire them the next week as your trash bag. Just remember which identical white bag is yours and PACK IT OUT.
cheap-o
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#4
Hey,
You can hang your stuffsack from a tree like suggested, just make sure you wrap the drawstring around to seal off the top. Rodents can still climb some trees on occasion and I had a very tasty peanut butter sandwich pilffered through the loose opening at the top. :bawling
Brandon
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#5
On my thru, I used a regular stuff sack (though a slightly heavier nylon that the standard), but kept all my food in ziplock freezer bags inside it, in order to keep everything separated/organized, and also to keep things dry when it rained and my food bag was hanging from a tree. The freezer bags work best because they are thicker and last longer. I never had food with me where I slept, and always hung my food bag away from me and away from the shelters whenever possible. A heavier “bear bag” is just extra weight/$$, because you are going to have to hang it the same way anyway.
Tortuga
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#6
I’ve had good luck with a Sea to Summit 13 Liter Ultra-light Dry Bag. It’s big enough for a weeks worth of food. It’s light(1.4oz), rain poof. easy to hang with the loop after rolling the top closed and the bag is slippery. I saw a mouse slip off my friends bag and hit the shelter floor because it couldn’t get a “hand hold”.
Captain K-man
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#7
yeah, pretty much anything will do. if mice get on it, they’ll chew threw pretty much anything, so it doesn’t too much matter what you use.
one suggestion that worked well for me, i used one of those stuff sacks that you can roll down the bag and then snap it shut on each side, and it worked far better than the usual drawstring ones. the benefit is it sealed it from the rain, whereas other hikers would hang their drawstring ones up and the rain would run down the strings and get into that little hole on top and onto the food.
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