Food Bag Recommendations?

[Cory Whitesell]

I'm looking for recommendations on what to use for a food bag. Also, how big of a bag do I need for 5-7 days of food?

All of my trips are in the midwest and on the AT (nothing in griz country).

[Mark Cashmere]

OK, I will be the first to say it – that depends on what you eat for 5-7 days. I would suggest (as others probably will) that you compile your menu and gather your food before figuring out what bag might work. I personally use an OR drybag that rolls down so I can use it for a variety of trip sizes. It also has a nice D-ring near the clasp that works out well as a tie-off for cordage.

[josh wagner]

here is the one i'm using:

http://www.zpacks.com/accessories/stuff_sacks.shtml

scroll down to large blast food bag

[Samuel Kau]

+1 on zpacks

[Mike W]

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[Roger Caffin]

Lightweight sil bags lined with plastic bags.
Never has any problems.

cheers

[James Marco]

I use a sil bag with food stuffed in ziploks for a week or less. For longer, I use a dry bag,
often having both(>20lb) on two seperate trees.

[Jerry Adams]

Gallon zip top bag

Probably 2 for 5 – 7 days

[John Vance]

I use a stuff sack (currently a sil bag) and plastic bags as well as ziplocks. Over 30 years and only one problem. A small rodent climbed down the cord, nibbled a hole in the stuff sack and either quit or fell off before he got any food.

[Diane Pinkers]

If you want the whole enchilada, the MLD Pro Bear Bag system has worked well for me. Roll-top cuben food bag keeps food dry, comes with rock sack, line, tiny biner for 3.2 ounces. Bears may not be an issue, but rodents may be.

[Sarah Kirkconnell]

I hate hanging bags, have been an Ursack user since 2002 happily.

[Philip Delvoie]

Like Diane I use the MLD Pro Bear setup and that works for me. The roll bag is about 12L in size and I have no problems fitting in 6-7 days worth of food in there. Mine is the older roll bag done in a heavier sil nylon and it works great. I have had it up in heavy rain and the contents stayed dry throughout, although most of my stuff is also in zip locks. Any light dry bag or stuff sack in and around that size should do it for you.

[Mary D]

Another Ursack fan here. Throwing exacerbates my incipient shoulder arthritis. Plus my throwing skills are abysmal–I couldn't hit the side of a barn if I were inside it.

[Dave Heiss]

+1 for the Ursack. No hanging necessary, no worries.

[Edward Z]

+1 on the Ursack. No issues, bombproof, and no need to fuss with the trees.

[John S.]

If buying today, which ursack material would y'all purchase?

[drowning in spam]

Spectra Ursack. So far I've tested mine against a cougar one night, and left it hanging in the mountains for a week completely unattended. The rodents chewed tiny holes though the fabric at some point during the week, but it wasn't enough to get into my food. Both encounters would have been avoided if I used the OPsaks I had sitting at home.

[Ken Thompson]

A big +1

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