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[at-l] Does anybody have an URSACK for sale?
One of the neat things about the AT is the grapevine/register communications.
I have never been around a bear problem on the AT, w/o having ample
pre-notice. When I hear of a bear slashing ropes, or a persistent problem
bear problem of any sort, I counterweight my food.
For those not aware of this technique, try the following:
Divide your food between TWO bags, with each weighing nearly the same.
Toss a line over a limb about four, or more, feet from the trunk of a tree and
some 16 plus feet off the ground.
Hoist the first bag up to just under the limb.
Tie the second bag on to the line (which you pulled down, pulling the first
bag up) somewhere about waist level.
Tie a loop in the remaining line a few inches below this second bag, and
secure the rest of the line above the bag.
Finally, use your trekking pole, or other sturdy stick push the second bag up
until the loop is eight, or so, feet off the ground. This will cause the
first bag to lower five or so feet. Now all your food is out of reach and
there are no lines tied around a tree trunk to attract bears.
You can retrieve the bags by hooking the loop with your pole and pulling the
bottom bag back down.
_ ____
=====|=|====/___ <= limb
| |
| | <= Line
| |
| ^
| ( ) <= Top bag
|
|
& <= Extra line
^
( ) <= Bottom bag
0 <= Loop
/
0 / <= You using pole to push bag up and/or
/^/ hooking the loop to pull it back down.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Walt Daniels" <wdlists@optonline.net>
To: "ATL" <at-l@backcountry.net>
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 10:25 PM
Subject: RE: [at-l] Does anybody have an URSACK for sale?
Most places. There are persistent bears in problem locations. For example
there was a female bear at Lake Colden in the Adirondacks more than 20 years
ago that got somebody's bag almost everynight. She recognised ropes tied to
trees and would bite them to drop the load, or almost anything else that was
tried.
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