Bear bags while hammock camping

[SilvrSurfr]

I just don't want my food near me at night, and the Ursack allows me to walk a couple of hundred feet and get the food away from me. It has been hard to get my kids to understand that food where you sleep is no good, but I think I've trained them. Well, actually a squirrel trained them because they weren't supposed to have any food in their hammocks but the squirrel found the food in their hammocks. Nothing like a real-world lesson to reinforce the basics!

Talk about funny - my son had a granola bar in his ridgeline organizer and the squirrel got into the Fronkey bugnet while my son was napping. I looked over and the squirrel was bouncing around off the bugnet, my son, and everywhere else. I laughed my butt off, but my son hardly budged. "Squirrel," he said. That was about it, then he went back to sleep.

This same squirrel, or one of his compatriots, stole my Bahco folding saw. I saw him carrying it up the tree and threw something at him. He dropped the saw. Later, he scored an unsecured granola bar and was happy.

[TheDoc]

I like the Zpacks food bag. It's as big as you need it to be, waterproof, and bear proof.

[Brien]

I'm old school, I keep all my food and toiletries in a dry bag and hang it a few hundred feet away from camp.

[gregsplett]

I put my whole pack up in a tree at night.It is not the bears that are the cause and I play in the densest population in the lower 48.ITS THE **** MICE YOU HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT!!It is one of the reasons I am getting of the ground.I spent one night on the ground under a tarp with the things crawling all over me.I have had them chew up all sorts of gear,even eat the dirty spots out of a brand new pair of shorts,laying right next tome.You can tell a black bear to go away,not a mouse.

[OneClick]

I must stink or something. I never see/hear a single critter the whole time I'm in camp. If I'm not worried about bears, often I'll leave food doubled up in dry bags under my hammock because I'm lazy and I like to start breaaaafast from the hammock first thing.

[alifeoutdoors]

I'm actually fortunate that I/we are always hiking with our best bud i.e. dog. The black bears up here are heavily hunted so even the scent of a dog will send most bears flying. I never have to worry about them in camp. However the little blood thirsty red squirrel is ever eager to run the gauntlet and risk the wrath of the german shepherd for a quick snack or peak into a bag. I've got her prey instinct pretty well grounded where she won't take off after any other creature ........... but red squirrel. They are her nemesis. But SilvrSurfr has the best critter story I've ever heard. An actual literal lol.

[millergear]

Ursack user here.....http://www.ursack.com
It is the lazy man's way.
Shug

Ditto Plus never having to deal with a Bear line getting wrapped around a high limb!

[SMJerry]

I use the URSACK. I never have to worry about the size or make of the creature trying to get at my chow.

[OneClick]

You guys would have talked me into the ursack, but not at that $$$$

[themadindian]

If I'm in the catskills or adirondaks its a bear vault since bear bags arent allowed but I've been thinking of switching to the ursack since the bv4500 is a pain in the pack otherwise rolltop dry bag PCT method