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So let your bag hang about 7 feet down. NOT intended for ANY use other than specified ie hanging food etc in trees.
Hanging is recommended taught and practiced by influential organizations and individuals even though it is less effective less.
Best bear bag rope. Anzeige Handtaschen und Accessoires zu Spitzenpreisen. Any rope will do but some are better suited for the task. Very light strong a smooth flat weave which will aid in sliding over the branch and long enough.
I had been using Kelty Triptease because thats what I had lying around but I switched to the AntiGravityGears Treeline. 40 feet of Spectra rope with built in rock sack. 4 easy steps to hang a bear bag using the PCT method complete with reviews of the best lightweight bear bags for backpacking.
Tie on twig 4. Suspend details below Bear bagging is an essential skill for backpackers even for those who are not traveling in bear. Simplify the process of sorting food and gear from a single large bear bag back into the crews individual backpacks Make the system stronger and weigh less than a single standard issue Philmont bear rope which is 150ft of ¼ nylon rope that weighs 2 ½ lbs and has a tensile strength of 1200 pounds.
Paracord SUCKS for a bear bag line. The outer sheath hangs up on the bark of many types of trees when the bag gets nearly empty you can wind up with your bag stuck in the tree. A far better choice is a braided spectra like the 725 that Gossamer Gear sells it has an oval cross section and is really slick it slides over the bark easily.
Tie the other around one trees trunk. Throw the rope over the first branch. Pull out most of the slack then throw it over the second trees branch.
Tie a loop in the cord at least 6 feet from each tree and clip the food bag to it. Pull on the free end of the cord to hoist the bag. We offer it for hanging your stuff in trees to keep it away from BEARS and other such critters.
Dynaglide is light small insanely strong and causes less damage to trees than any other cord we know of in its class. Included is 50 feet of bright green Dynaglide Line. NOT intended for ANY use other than specified ie hanging food etc in trees.
Find a tree with a branch about 15 feet above the ground with nothing below it that could support the weight of a bear. Throw one end of your rope over the branch. Tie your food bag to one end of the rope.
Pull on the rope so the bear bag goes as high as possible. Tie the rope to the tree. Ursack bags are made of super strong bulletproof Spectra fabric and hold up to the Interagency Grizzly Committee IGBC test.
Not only do Ursacks withstand bears they also protect your food from mice and raccoons. The rope that ties the mouth of the bag closed should also be long enough to tie around a tree trunk. Option 2 PCT method.
For this method use a rock sack to secure your cord over a branch in a tree similar to the traditional method. Using the PCT method youll pass one end of the rope which was attached to the throw bag through a carabiner and lock it before pulling the bag as high as you can. The pulley should end up in the middle of the two trees preferably at least 15 in the air.
My DCF bear bag with an OPSAK inside is then be hoisted up with the second line that runs through the pulley and tied to a different tree. My entire system bags lines. Bear bags are a stubborn fixture of the backpacking world.
Hanging is recommended taught and practiced by influential organizations and individuals even though it is less effective less. I also recommend the UL Deluxe bear bag kit from AntiGravityGear which includes the throw rope silnylon storage bag and an inner Aloksak oder-resistent bag. Another key element to hanging a bear bag is location.
You should hang the bag well away 200 ft60 m. After youve found the perfect tree branch and thrown the line over it attach the biner to the stuff sacks hang loop as shown. Pull the bag 10-15 feet off the ground and secure the other end of the line to a different tree above head height.
What about the OPSACK. I use this to line the inside of my bear bag and then put all of my food in it. With the rope that is hanging over the tree branch on the opposite side as the bag pull on the rope to raise the bag to the appropriate height.
You want your bag to be around 7 feet away from the base of the tree if possible. So let your bag hang about 7 feet down. Anzeige Handtaschen und Accessoires zu Spitzenpreisen.