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My thought was that the ziplocs and commercial bagging will be enough to keep most animals from digging in my stuff, but it wouldn't hurt if I also stored my food in a drysac or something else fairly air tight.


Nope. trust me, that won't work. you'll have your food bag chewed into and messed with.

If I'm in a park with bear hangs or lockers, I use them.

Otherwise I hang in a tree, using the PCT method. It's easy and it works. At least in my case, no mouse or squirrel is going to shimmy down the 130lb dacron fishline that suspends my hang bag from the branch, and no porcupine is going to climb up it.

If you can't hang, find an ursack - since they are no longer certified as an approved bear canister by the sierra bear gestapo you can probably find one cheap as everyone in california will be unloading them <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> An ursack is "chew resistant" to keep rodents out - OTOH, I've never had a problem with my stuff when
hung. (I often hang my whole pack, not just the food bag.)
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