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Pro tip: wrap your bear hang rope around a rock first when there are no good branches
Lost my food bag to a pine marten near Tuolumne Meadows two weeks ago because the only tree around had limbs too high and too thin to hold anything. Now I tie the rope around a fist-sized rock, chuck it over the branch, and let the rock hang as a counterweight so the bag can't get swung into reach. Anyone else got a trick for treeline camping where there's nothing to hang from?
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ninam767d ago
That rock trick has a real problem when the branch is thin, because a fist sized rock swinging on the end of your line acts like a wrecking ball in wind. I watched a guy near Young Lakes do the rock counterweight thing and around 2am his line sawed right through a lodgepole branch about 3 inches thick, dropped his whole bag, and a marten had it open before he even got out of the tent. You also just doubled the weight you are trying to hoist, and a rock resting against the trunk gives a marten a perfect ladder right down your rope to the food. Honestly if there is nothing solid to hang from, a hard sided canister stashed 100 feet from camp behind a log beats any rope setup.
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