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#150853 - 05/27/11 06:18 PM Re: New to backpacking [Re: Jimshaw]
ringtail member Registered: 08/22/02 Posts: 2296 Loc: Colorado Rockies	Jim, after the Wahtum Lake fiasco I converted to Ursack. I was never good at bear bagging. _________________________ "In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not." Yogi Berra
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