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08/02/2020 08:30PM
Rookie question, but what do you do with the packs that aren't the food packs? Do you have them in the tent? Just around the campsite? I have always kept the food and items to cook with in a bear box while not canoe camping. A few weekend river trips near the house I just had things very disorganized. It was fun, all went ok, but I want a better plan. Thanks Dan
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08/03/2020 07:15AM
If we have a tarp up typically that is the preferred spot for the packs.
Recently one of our favorite methods is to use a small piece of paracord to make a hanger on tree trunk. It is probably 2 feet long with a bowline tied on each end, and a carabiner clipped to one end. wrap it around a tree with the carabiner end through the other bowline loop. Clip the carabiner to the handle on the top of your pack. Height of the pack is easily adjusted depending on how high you wrap it around the tree and how big of diameter the tree is. Most importantly the pack is off the ground and easy to access.
Recently one of our favorite methods is to use a small piece of paracord to make a hanger on tree trunk. It is probably 2 feet long with a bowline tied on each end, and a carabiner clipped to one end. wrap it around a tree with the carabiner end through the other bowline loop. Clip the carabiner to the handle on the top of your pack. Height of the pack is easily adjusted depending on how high you wrap it around the tree and how big of diameter the tree is. Most importantly the pack is off the ground and easy to access.
08/03/2020 08:44AM
Everyone takes their personal gear to their tent or hammock area. They store it under the hammock tarp or the tent vestibule. I sleep in a tent so in the tent I keep my clothing, water bottle and my journal/book. Anything else gets stored in the vestibule.
Cooking gear or other misc. gets stuffed in the Sealline pack and left near the fire grate area. If we have a cooking tarp up, it sits under there.
Cooking gear or other misc. gets stuffed in the Sealline pack and left near the fire grate area. If we have a cooking tarp up, it sits under there.
08/03/2020 09:58AM
We travel with two packs. The food bag is kept in one of them. We don't have one pack dedicated solely to food, and overall our food doesn't take up much room. We aren't food bag hangers, so the food is stored separately from the other pack, which goes under the tarp. The vestibules in my tent aren't big enough to accommodate a pack.
Mike
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I did indeed rock down to Electric Avenue, but I did not take it higher. I regret that.
08/03/2020 12:05PM
We always line our packs with large black plastic contractor bags. When we get to camp and it has been unloaded, then I reverse the process. I put the stuff sacks / compression sacks inside the pack, and then I put it inside the contractor bag, tie it off, and then put it under the "vestibule" of my tent.
If it is the day pack that we are going to be using regularly, then it will probably come in the tent (if its going to rain) or in the vestibulte at night. I hang it from a branch during the day.
If it is the day pack that we are going to be using regularly, then it will probably come in the tent (if its going to rain) or in the vestibulte at night. I hang it from a branch during the day.
08/03/2020 12:21PM
I use a two pack system. One bag carries my cooking stuff, tarp, bugnet, ursack sometimes, fishing stuff, tarp, axe/saw. It stays out under my tarp. My other bag carries my tent and everything that goes in my tent, pads, sleep stuff, cloths, lights, first aid kit, etc. it comes in the tent with me and holds anything I’m not using at the moment. My dogs like to lean up against it when they sleep.
08/03/2020 12:49PM
The packs I bring are waterproof so I just hang them near my hammock so they don't get morning dew on them or mice rummaging through.
"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to." – Bilbo Baggins
08/03/2020 02:28PM
I like a clean camp so empty packs and unused gear go in the two primary travel packs. One is for food and cooking supplies and the other for sleeping and clothing items. No food ever goes into that bag and dirty clothes go in the kitchen bag. I hang the food bag with food in urasack bag and cover the other bag to keep it dry from dew/condensation.
A bag with food smell on the ground left un-attended is a bag with a hole.
A bag with food smell on the ground left un-attended is a bag with a hole.
08/03/2020 02:44PM
Endeavor to persevere.
08/03/2020 04:05PM
Main pack is under a tarp at night. During the day, it's usually leaning up against a tree near the seating logs for easy access.
Camp organization is an ongoing learning experience and something I'm trying to get better at. I spend so much time looking for things. Then, I'll be over looking for something and think of another task to do and forget what I was looking for in the first place. One big game of musical chores.
Camp organization is an ongoing learning experience and something I'm trying to get better at. I spend so much time looking for things. Then, I'll be over looking for something and think of another task to do and forget what I was looking for in the first place. One big game of musical chores.
08/03/2020 05:24PM
unshavenman: "I keep my pack under my hammock or I hang it from a nearby tree with a Carl's Pack Hanger "
Dutch thinks of everything.
That is a lighter solution to what I suggested. We used paracord and the carabiner because that is what we had with us on our trip at the time when I had the idea. If i decide to finally pick up a chameleon from dutchware may have to add one of these to the cart.
08/03/2020 06:23PM
4keys: "We put our packs under the vestibule, then at night toss rain coats, hats, on top of it so they are handy but don't take up room in the tent.
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I do the same. I have two vestibules so one is pack storage.
08/04/2020 08:09AM
My pack are not waterproof. I place packs with gear/clothes in contractor garbage bags and finish with a loose knot. Note: deters the scrutiny of cute, furry critters who like to explore packs & sacks with openings.
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Sir Isaac Newton
08/04/2020 10:50AM
Blatz: "Against a tree when I don't carry a tarp. It's just one pack and the small bit of stuff in it is protected with the plastic liner. The pack can get wet. No different than if it rains while traveling"
I take the plastic liner out of the back and put the pack IN the liner. Easier to deal with a dry pack when packing than a wet one.
08/04/2020 04:05PM
I put non-Food packs, paddles and life jackets under the turned over canoe. The thwarts, seats and yoke can help keep stuff mostly off the ground. I tie the light stuff to a thwart especially if it looks like there might be a storm. I tie the canoe to a tree (I didn't do this in the days of 80 pound aluminum canoes but I do now with light weight canoes.)
08/04/2020 04:05PM
I put non-Food packs, paddles and life jackets under the turned over canoe. The thwarts, seats and yoke can help keep stuff mostly off the ground. I tie the light stuff to a thwart especially if it looks like there might be a storm. I tie the canoe to a tree (I didn't do this in the days of 80 pound aluminum canoes but I do now with light weight canoes.)
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