dogjojo wrote on Mar 11^th, 2011 at 1:50pm:

Great discussion.  I may have mis-typed when I said "bear proof."  What I am looking at are these blue barrels that supposedly seal in the smell of the food in the barrel keeping the bears from looking for it, hence keeping them out of camp.  I am tired of hanging the food pack and knowing that 75% of the time the bears could get it anyway.     (You need to Login or Register Also, I read (I think on this site) a survey of what people do with their food.  One person replied that they slept with it.  I thought this was a joke, but who knows...maybe it is the easiest way to wake up and scare off a bear.  Not for me.

Those blue barrels aren't air-tight.  If they were you wouldn't be able to open them in the cool morning air.  Then, after you pack up and head out they'll want to pop open as the air inside heats up.  They have a little hole to allow them to breathe with the ambient temperature.  Not enough of a hole to warrant worries of water getting in except for condensation.

Only people with a deathwish keep food in their shelter.  There was a story years back about a kid who was dragged out of his tent by his ass.  That's the pocket that had the candy bar in it.