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Believe me I tried doing it that way most of the time and my floor orientation still never ended up exactly where I wanted; it just wasn't the tent...

Not a thru-hiker here. I have only done one LASH (352 miles north from Springer) on the AT (and getting ready to do the next 378 miles in a...

Trail Name: TBD Direction/Start Location NOBO Estimated Start Date: March 18 any additional info that you want the world to know: Starting more...

i always sleep with my food in my tent. 35+ years now

I think that's something that varies depending on who's jurisdiction the land you are in is under: Some places it's illegal. Some places it's not...

Thats the one! thanks!

It's funny I haven't thought of it this way before. But, I think you speak some truth. I think I disagree that slowing down and fully immersing...

Stopped in there on my hike this past summer. Got a cookie and and huge glass of lemonade!

Triple Crown Coffee, perhaps?

i didnt realize that sleeping with one's food while in the great outdoors was a right....... must be amendment 28......

Yes, the dealer sent in the bag last March, and I got a new one recently as a replacement. This is a pic from the time when the pack was still OK:

Talking about another guy's drinking problem on youtube, sleeping with food bag in shelter, and shoving a camera into other hiker's faces? What...

I've hiked all my life, and in my mid 60's my opinion is that the older hikers make the best company, and also get the most out of the trail. So...

I hope that it's changed management and no longer is run by a big dufus that hates hiking. "Because I dislike extended misery" he said.

Bubblehead didn’t say if he was sleeping in shelters with his food, but if he is, then I’m 100% in agreement with JNI64. You simply don’t do that &...

I think that going as odor-proof as possible and sleeping with it is the best option unless there is a known bear issue at that location, then use a...

Long before Percival Baxter bought his first lot, there were trails up Katahdin and one of the first routes was from the East from the East Branch....

I always hung my food on the AT. Last year, I hiked the Colorado Trail where there are often no trees or no suitable trees, so I slept with my food....

I sleep with my food unless I'm with a group who is hanging their food and then I do the socially correct thing and hang mine too using the PCT...

Thanks peakbagger I appreciate the info. As an aside my parents have owned a beautiful old homestead on Swift Brook road for 40 years. My father and...

One evening I set up my tent in the general shelter area. Since it was raining and I was lazy, I put my food bag on the ground just outside my tent....

To each their own, but if he's sleeping in a shelter and everyone else has taken the effort to hang their food but 1 person that's just straight up...

Yes, Harrison’s is a must stop IMHO. It’s 3/10’s of a mile down a blue blazed trail from Pierce Pond shelter. It’s not a hostel or camp spot...

The bears that live near heavily traveled trails do not fear people. I sleep over my food frequently in real wilderness, but never on the AT except...

If the comparison is between the average mediocre hanging of a bear bag to sleeping with the food next to you, I'd endorse sleeping with it. Properly...

He's just looking for trouble. He's only lucky trouble hasn't found him yet.