[at-l] Bear cables dont work!

[m_factor@hotmail.com (Mara Factor)]

There's a good network of information on the trail.  When you get to a 
shelter, if there's been bear problems, you'll read about it in the register 
and will then know to bear bag your food.

If there haven't been problems, most thruhikers think it's not worth it to 
go through the effort to hang food.

Even though a smaller "stealth" camp away from shelters might be less likely 
to attract bears, I was more likely to bear bag my food when I was camping 
away from shelters.  Just couldn't tell unless there were obvious signs of 
bear (claw marks, scat) whether there were bear in the area.

Mara
Stitches, GAME99


>From: Amy <askowronek@mindspring.com>
>Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 06:45:49 -0400
>
>The Weathercarrot wrote:
>
>>The majority of the AT has minimal bear issues for hikers, and most
>>people end up hanging their food in the shelters or sleep with food in
>>their tents (whether people agree or disagree with those practices,
>>that's what most long distance AT hikers are doing).
>
>Wow.  I had no idea.  Do most start out hanging food and get tired
>of it?

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