General Discussion / Re: Bear safe food storage
« on: January 19, 2023, 10:21:26 am »BTW, I just noticed that they now make a BV425 it might be a size that works for some touring riders since it will possibly suit the short distances between resupply that some of us have whan touring. I live my BV450 for backpacking where a canister is required, but have never toured with one. I have always managed to find bear boxes, hang food, or improvise something. That improvising has been anything from putting my food in a nearby restroom, asking another camper to put in their car trunk where that was the camps recommended policy, or whatever. In rare cases I just put it well away from camp and hoped it didn't get eaten.
In practice I have had more trouble with raccoons. I accidentally left a power bar in a pannier pocket and a raccoon chewed it up, put it back, and zipped it back up. By the time I discovered it days later the pannier had a permanent smell of power bar and that pocket was opened by raccoons many times and usually zipped back up after the contents were strewn around.