Steve's Bear Canister Page 2

    A lot of people wonder about storing a canister at the camp site.  You do not need to hang it as you would when you counterbalance.  We generally place it somewhere within a 100 feet of our camp.  Keep it away from cliffs or river banks.  If a bear comes into camp, they will potentially play around with it, and if it is on a hill it will roll down.
Some people in the counterbalance world hang strips of cloth around their camps as decoys, hoping the bear will be confused by everything hanging from the trees.  I will let you be the judge on how effective that is.  We thought about bringing along extra pieces of PVC pipe to see if the bear was confused by all the canisters, but decided the canister on its own is a good enough deterrent

This is another view of the top, showing the screw locks and the button.

Here is a canister compared to a 12 oz soda can. Giving you and idea of its size and volume. This also shows how they have smoothed the external portion top and bottom, so there is nothing to grip.

Here is the canister in my pack. I have a North Face external frame pack With the canister in my pack and the food in the canister, I still have some room for miscellaneous small items. The bottom pocket is where I normally carried my food, so I have not lost any space in my pack.

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