Mountain_Paddler wrote on Mar 12^th, 2011 at 3:47pm:

So my question is, if you do go to all the trouble of hanging it between trees, does it work?  Is your food safe?  In Q, is anyone aware of any time a bear or other critter got into a properly hung food stash? And thanks, nctry_Ben, for the reminder earlier that you won't always have the right two trees.

If the critter is properly motivated, yeah they might get into it.  I've never heard of this happening.  The key is to not hang it right at a branch or line strung between trees.  A few meters from the ground, a couple meters from the trunks, a couple meters from the throw-over.  That makes for a 6m throw or more.

Stinky foods should be well packaged.  Double zip-lock.

It's very rare that I can't find two trees.  Only one of the has to be high enough.  The other can be almost any old stump to help pull the bag away from the trunk.