[at-l] Food Cache

[daveh at psknet.com (Dave Hicks)]

The most important logistics / issue is: A) picking up the empties after the
hike, and of B) getting your trash out.

These can be solved in one pick-up, after the hike -- i.e, stash your trash
in the empty in which you stashed you food; then pick the whole mess up
later.

I have done it, but IMHO the effort along the AT isn't worth the additional
logistics -- except in cases like Bob C.'s not wanting to
be hitching into towns with a kid in tow.

I hung (bearbag style) empty metal paint cans camouflaged with burlap
bags -- w/o problems.  Hanging requires stashes to more distance from the
trail and are more likely to be seen and tampered with by humans than
stashes behind logs.  However, if there are bears around, anything short of
a bear canister are likely to be raided, if left at ground level.

Chainsaw

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob C." <ellen@clinic.net>
To: "Kurt C" <onestep@gwi.net>
Cc: "Appalachian Trail List" <at-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 9:28 PM
Subject: Re: [at-l] Food Cache

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 I drove around 700 miles distributing the containers and equal miles
picking up
 the empties after the hike.
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