OPSacks and odor paranoia in the back country.

I must confess I am a horrible person. I put my food under my tarp and sleep next to it. Pity the bear tries to steal my food after I've been out a week!

Honestly though I would not worry much about it unless you are in grizzly country. Then I'd be a bit more careful. I DO take my food bag out of my pack at night. Last thing you want is a marmot chewing a hole in your $200 pack to eat 55 cents worth of candy bar.

I usually carry 2 – 9" x 10" OPSAKs. One for food items (dried sausage, sunrise bars, dehydrated mango, etc.) and another for garbage. Think of them as a glorified turkey bag. They're just the aLOKSAKs (Element gaurd bags) with an added thermally bonded "turkey bag/smellproof" layer. I keep only "loose food items" (read: non-freeze dried foods packs) and garbage in them. Everything else is just in the bear can with the OPSAKs. It's a good product…the aLOKSAKs too. I've put two bags (OPSAK and aLOKSAK) through my "non-gentle treatment" tests and they still don't have any holes and still seal just fine. I haven't been throwing them around, but I havn't been babying them.

All in all, I'm 99.9% positive they will fix your curry problem if they're recommending using them for "Soiled diapers".

HTH!

KJ