FireChief & Yellowbird,

While I'm sure there will be plenty of folks wanting to cover this topic again (just watch), consider doing a "Search" of both the New & Old Forums.  Keywords might be "Food Pack" or "Bear Proofing", etc..  Another way at getting to the vast amount of commentary on this subject would be to search the contents of either the General Discussion Forum OR, perhaps, the Strictly Gear Forum for related materials.  

I know for a fact there was at least one thread entitled "Food Packs" where a fair amount of this discussion was carried on.  It was either there or on some other related thread where I got fairly well-blistered for my former practice of shoving my Food Pack under the canoe (versus "hanging" versus "random placement in the woods" versus "guard dogs" versus substituting "live chicken sacrifices" versus who knows what else).  Anyway, I recommend dredging up one of those old threads & resurrecting it for discussion this year.  Seems we gotta fight this one out at least once a year.  This is as good a time as any to do it!!

Jimbo