Another question. Would you leave the tent up and slightly open with your stuff inside it so the critters can inspect it and hopefully not harm anything. Or would to pack the tent away and store everything but food in a tightly packed backpack that you leave at the camp while summiting? I read that the critters at Trail Camp are quite unforgiving with their search for food and made holes in closed tents. There are no trees to hang a pack.

I never had to worry about that since my prior hikes always had a different overnight location.