RE: [Philmont]: Bear Bag Alternative

We took another approach: we brought our own rope.

We got 150 feet of 1/4 inch woven nylon rope on sale at Home Depot for about
$10. It was incredibly ugly -- orange, with yellow and green flecks woven
in. No question who it belonged to; no one else would claim it.

Dan Bestul
Monroe, WI
Philmont 2003 crew 812-A
Double H 2004 crew 721-BB

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-philmont@troop47.com [mailto:owner-philmont@troop47.com]On
Behalf Of Larry Stout
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 1:16 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list philmont
Subject: 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 <mailto:philmontjohn@yahoo.com> LeBlanc
To: Multiple recipients of list <mailto:philmont@troop47.com> 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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