by skywheeler » Sat 15 Dec, 2018 6:19 am
I tie off some rope around a branch, or a beam I f I’m I a hut, then hang my stuff sack containing the food with a long wire fishing trace. It’s strong, light to carry, doesn’t tangle when you store it in your pack and is too fine any slippery for the rodents to shimmy down.
I also have a hammock that suspends inside the top of my tent, so if my food sack is not too heavy, it sits in there.
I’ve not had a problem with either approach.
On the Green Gully Track, each hut has a small metal meat safe. On my first night, being too lazy to unpack the food so it’d stack into the safe, I had suspended my food sack from a beam with a rope rather than using the safe. This was before I’d discovered the benefits of the wire fishing trace. The rodents kept coming back throughout the night to try to get my food, which meant I didn’t sleep very well, trying to protect it. On the subsequent nights, I made sure I packed my food into the small meat safe. Once lights were out, I’d hear the rodents come into the hut, do a scout around, figure out that the food was out of their reach, then not return at all. Learning -the provided storage is there for a reason, so use it.
Was not fun to retreive.
