[Philmont]: Bear Bag Alternative

Well, it's not really an alternative, but a better mousetrap.
 
Instead of using the Philmont issue bear bags which are woven poly feed sacksgo buy some nylon mesh bags designed to contain basketballs/volleyballs/soccer balls. These can be had for a few dollars at most sporting goods stores.
 
They are usually stiff, so wash them to soften. Also they come in various colors, so
get them each in a different color and wala, your bear bags are color coded. A big help in the morning when trying to find your stuff. Ours were red, white and blue plus a yellow and green.
 
Most crews need three bags, but these are so light and pack so small that we took five of them and lessened the load in each bag. That gave us four smaller bear bags and an oops bag all made of nylon mesh. Crew members packing food into their packs just left the food in these mesh bags and dropped it into their packs. We knew which color bags the breakfast, lunch and supper was in thus making it easy to find the right meal.
 
They are much easier to handle and tie ropes to than the issue feed sack bear bags.
 
John LeBlanc

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Received on Thu Feb 5 20:59:35 2004