Re: [Philmont]: Bear Bag Alternative

This is a great idea. With multiple bags hanging, you could also mark the bitter
end of the rope with the mark matching the bag it's connected to.

ls

"E. Burch" wrote:

> Not having seen this list in a while, I'm not sure if this idea has been
> suggested already or not. Pardon me if this tip is redundant. When our crew
> went last year (620) we were relatively new to the use of bear bags. What we
> found at Philmont was that when you find the bear cable each night, you will
> usually find one or two other crews sharing it. Being newbies, we used all 6
> of the Philmont supplied bear bags for our 12 man crew. After the first day we
> discovered that we really needed to identify which of our bags was which, and
> which group of bags belonged to our crew when suspended from the cable. The
> boys took a marker and drew a symbol on the bottom of each of our bags, (rock
> band symbols that they could identify with). This worked out very well and
> helped us to avoid the same sort of incident that befell one of our sister
> crews. It seems that one of the crews that shared thier camp one night got up
> before 1st light and inadvertently took one of our sister crew's bear bags
> thereby causing them to come up short on meals. If I were to go again, I
> believe I would take a small roll of reflective tape and code the bottoms of
> the bags with this. (Especially the oops bag.) This would seem to be most
> helpful at night or in the early morning hours when headlamps are in use. I
> would probably avoid the use of two dots spaced close together as this could
> cause some excitement amongst the other crews. Hope this is helpful for your
> great adventure. Eric
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John LeBlanc
> To: Multiple recipients of list philmont
> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 3:46 PM
> 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.
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Received on Wed Feb 18 13:30:27 2004