I use a better grade of Rubber-Maid box than db with my Wenzel Load Hauler  [SEE     (You need to Login or Register   ].  Yes, it costs a few bucks more than some of the other solutions but it has serviced us well over our last three trips.  BWYoungster made a good point, though...such a system DOES encourage you to take MORE food.  Anyhow, IF you DO like to "eat well", this system works well.   ;D

As far as the "hanging" part goes, well... I DID invest in the BWJ Bear Rope system last Winter.  While it does include high quality rope & really good pulleys, etc., I'd have to say that I could have gone to the local hardware store & walked away with an equivalent system for about half the price.  Even then, in actual practice this year, we probably only hanged our bags about half the time.  We ended up reverting to "old habits" & stashing the food packs (yes, PLURAL, for 5 of us) under the canoes during the other nights.  We also used the "random placement in the woods" technique.  Just lazy, partly.  Also - towards the end of our 8 days AND just when the packs were getting light, unfortunately - we figured a poor, starved bear would be welcomed to what little was left (about 6 long rolls of Summer Sausage; the sausage was NOT a big hit with this year's crew   :P).

Also, LAST SEPTEMBER db & Tripper dazzled me with their virtuoso displays of  hanging their food packs.  Somehow this year I could never make my BWJ bear rope system work (OR look) quite as good as THEIR systems worked (& looked).  Thus, the pack-hanging "inferiority complex" that has ensued has probably contributed to my reversion to bad habits from my sorry canoe-camping past.  :-[

Jimbo   8)

PS.  I'll be packing my Wenzel Load Hauler to Bushwhacker's Jamboree next June.  I figure I may need it to haul out Stumpy if he breaks a leg or something.   ;)