Re: [pct-l] other materials for bear-proof food storage?

[Brick Robbins <brick@fastpack.com>]

>  But it sure would
>be advantageous to have a device that, unlike bear "cans" of
>any type, would at least conform somewhat to the shape of a
>backpack. Any ideas, anyone?

Besided keeping the food away from the bear, the storage container has to 
be designed so that the bear can't carry it off -  the cans are too big to 
fit in a bear's mouth. That is why the bear cans say to remove any straps 
or slings that may have been attached for handling ease during the day.

A "soft" kevlar pouch would just get carried off. I suppose you could chain 
it to a tree, but then you have to carry the chain or cable or whatever


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