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Re: bear proof food container
Reply #10 - Mar 10th, 2011 at 12:55pm
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People talk about using the blue barrels as bear proof for their food.  Can anyone post pictures of the blue barrels in the ranger station at Prairie Portage?
  
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Reply #11 - Mar 10th, 2011 at 1:03pm
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The manufacturer of the bear vaults won’t call them “bear-proof”, because when tested on some particular group of bears in upstate New York, they figured out how to get the lids off.  Those bears were really smart, retired wall-street investment brokers, I think.  The story of these bears is as interesting as this whole discussion on bears:
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Reply #12 - Mar 11th, 2011 at 1:50pm
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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.
 
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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.
  
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Reply #13 - Mar 11th, 2011 at 2:55pm
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If the bear eats our food that means he is not eating us Grin

What next Bear Proof Tents and Sleeping Bags. Bottom line is if the Bear wants it he will get it.

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Really these Bears appreciated the nice burrito with a Nylon Tortilla Shell Shocked Shocked

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Reply #14 - Mar 11th, 2011 at 3:00pm
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I looked at all the on-line ads and reviews and the photos on the blue barrels, the bearikade, the ursack, and the bear vault.  I think I'm going to get me a bear vault.  And stay away from those really smart bears in New York.  The bear vault is significantly cheaper than the bearikade.  The size of the bear vault is big enough to last a person quite a while if you are strictly oatmeal and freeze dry.  If you are going to bring mustard jars and apples--well, I recommend a camper and a drive-in campground.
  One of the advantages of the blue barrels is that if you use it to ice down your beer at a party back at home, the color will match the new blue labels on the Coors bottles.
  
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Reply #15 - Mar 11th, 2011 at 3:10pm
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Would you mind posting a link to the bear vault you mention.
  
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Reply #16 - Mar 11th, 2011 at 3:13pm
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dogjojo wrote on Mar 11th, 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.
 
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I knew what you were referring to.  My comments relate to the blue barrels.  (I painted my green, BYW)

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Reply #17 - Mar 11th, 2011 at 6:51pm
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Is that a cooler of food setting outside the tent in the above picture?

This may be the bear Vault.
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Reply #18 - Mar 11th, 2011 at 7:14pm
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MP is correct the Bear Vault seems to work as long as you stay away from the Red Version.  The Bears seem to like the color Red Wink

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Reply #19 - Mar 11th, 2011 at 9:02pm
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I use a combination of hanging and bear canister storage. After some research I settled on the Garcia Machine Backpackers Cache.

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