Re: [at-l] Hanging Food - I'm a spaz.

["Cora Drake" <cora_drake@hotmail.com>]

Must be time for me to get vocal -- again.  Can't claim Pocahontas but I 
'spect some of the Salem witches were kin.  Now we are three and ain't we 
got fun?

As for hanging food bags:
(1) some people think their other stuff don't smell, neither
(2) there's no way I know of to actually secure food from critters
(3) I, too, got way lucky in my 2000 miles of both very long (1500 mi.) and 
very short (weekend) AT hikes but got a wee hole gnawed in my hip pack last 
time I bragged on that w/out knocking on wood
(4) the best we can do isn't good enough to spare the lives of animals who 
eat the wrong garbage or become too dangerous, but we better do it anyway or 
stop saying we love the outdoors and are entitled to play in it any time we 
wanna.

-- and that's all I have to say about that!

Except that SNP bear poles are ridiculously too short and too close to 
shelters but getting bags on/off of 'em is pretty hilarious.

NJ has a really successful idea with their metal lockers, set in concrete, 
at a good distance from shelters. [I  sat on one, one evening, glaring at a 
little bear who wanted the supper I was eating and the food bag in the box 
under my determined butt.  Later I moved my tent into the shelter and armed 
myself with lots of fist-sized rocks. Nearly threw some at the rangers who 
dropped by just after dark with the good news that if I'd seen the little 
bear that probably meant the big one who'd been taking packs off hikers 
backs was somewhere else at the moment.  As luck would have it, that was one 
of the 6 nights out of about 150 that I actually camped alone.  I made 
exceptionally good time out of there the next morning!]

Oh yeah, and one time I hung a bear bag and the whole tree fell over because 
it was dead -- but who coulda known?  There weren't any leaves on any of 'em 
yet!

>From: "Coosa" <coosa@alltel.net>
>To: <lparker@cacaphony.net>, <Slyinmd@aol.com>, <at-l@backcountry.net>
>Subject: Re: [at-l] Hanging Food - I'm a spaz.
>Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 23:03:19 -0500
>
>Oh, gosh, are there TWO of us on this e-list?   Are you the evil twin or 
>the
>good twin?
>C>HW
>
>-----Original Message-----
>
>
> >> I doubt it.  Most people don't know what to do with a vocal female.
> >> Especially if she's a Senior Blonde Redneck from the
> >> Scots-Irish environs of
> >> North Georgia and related to Daniel Boone, Edward I and Eleanor the
> >> L'enfante de Castille, Louis XIV, and Pocahontas, too.
> >
> >Hey! Wait a minute! I'm related to all them folks too! Does that mean 
>we're
> >kin?
> >
> >Lee I Joe
> >
> >
>
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