[philmont] Bear Bags

        In 2002 our crew took three large mesh bags that you store bolleyballs or basketballs in. Since everything that went in them was either in plastic or waterproof, they worked fine and were much lighter than PhilIssue bags.
   
  We used a red, white and blue one. The color coding helped to identify which bag your stuff wsa in.
   
  And we use a smaller one that was green for the oops bag.
   
  The other addition is we took some lightweight aluminum pulleys. The kind climbers and rafters use, not the hardware store variety.
   
  We attached a pulley to the end of the rope adn threw it over the cable, then ran the other end of the rope through the pulley and then hoisted the pulley up to the cable.
   
  Then when we raised the loaded bag we had the advantage of the rope running through the pulley instead of over the cable.
   
  Over the cable tends to tear upp and break ropes not to mention it is a lot harder to pull the bag up.
   
  That made raising the bear bag duck soup.
   
  I've been using this method in trees without bear cables for eons adn it works.
   
  Anothern trick is to let each crew member use a small (gallon sixe) nylon dry bag (costs about $10.00) to put all their bear bag stuff in and it's easy to ID if they put their name on it, whose bag is whose instead of looking at clear zip lock bags. PLus they are a lot tougher and a lot more waterproof than ziplocs.
   
  John LeBlanc
      

       
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