How Do You Protect Food From Bears And Critters?
If your campsite has special food storage lockers, use them. Your next best option is to pack your food in a bear-safe food container, and store this container outside your tent, in a location where is won’t roll away. Often the Park Service will rent them, or you can rent or buy them at an outdoor equipment store. But, if you don’t have a locker or bear-safe container, you should hang your food. Put all food and garbage into sealable, airtight bags, such as Ziploc bags. Divide these bags of food and other odoriferous equipment into two piles of equal weight. Put each pile into a separate plastic garbage bag. Tie the bags shut and put each bag into its own stuff sack. Tie a rock to one end of a 100-foot length of parachute cord, then throw the rock and cord over a strong, sturdy tree branch 20 to 30 feet off the ground and 8 to 10 feet away from the tree trunk. Tie one filled stuff sack to one end of the parachute cord using a sturdy knot, and hoist that bag off the ground until it rea
