solotripper wrote on Aug 10^th, 2011 at 10:44pm:

Very nice! Did you hang or hide your pack? Looks like a lot more Jack Pine, scrub type country. If you hid it, did you go the Blue Barrel route.

Didn't really do either.  We just put parked our food packs on a tree so that it was up off the ground, perhaps reducing the chances that "ground crawlers" would find it.  One of the early photo's shows a green waterproof "Sportchief" pack parked on the trunk of a tree perhaps 5 feet off the ground.  That's my food pack.  As indicated above, many campsites are rarely used, which means that bears have little chance to habituate to a given campsite.  But your observation about the trees is pretty accurate ... it would be very rare to find adequate hanging trees in much of WCP.

Our Canadian guests did hang, but just high off the ground on the trunk of a tree ... really easy for a black bear to nab if in the area.  (BTW:  I've taken to putting my food pack in my canoe when I'm out fishing for the day just so I can keep an eye on it ... its also good ballast.)

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