OK, I'm convinced.  Stash it.  And use the bear vault.  And keep it odor free.  And choose campsites that are away from big places of concentration.  Further, with four of us, if we each stash our vault in a different place, maybe he won't get all of them.

My goal here is not to lose my food for at least three days.  After that, I'm on a 6-day trip, I'm already heading home, and I won't have to cut the trip short.  

Thanks, MT, for the book ref.  I'll see if our local library has it.