RE: [Philmont]: Bear Bag Alternative

Caution - newbie question approaching...

The mesh bags sound intriguing, but what did you do to protect items that
shouldn't get wet?

Ched Hudson
ASM, Troop 994
Fairfax Station, VA
Philmont '67, '04
  -----Original Message-----
  From: owner-philmont@troop47.com [mailto:owner-philmont@troop47.com]On
Behalf Of John LeBlanc
  Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 9:46 PM
  To: Multiple recipients of list philmont
  Subject: [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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