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I’ve seen and heard of several hikers on the Ouachita trail and the Ozark Highlands trail using 5 gallon buckets with lids to store their resupply caches. I’ve made the stupid decision before to “hide” a resupply cache on the ground, in a silnylon bag, when I couldn’t find suitable trees for hanging in the near vicinity, and I paid for that mistake by losing 6 days of food to the local raccoon community. It seems to me that a snap lid on a 5 gallon bucket would pose as much difficulty to a raccoon as a flimsy fabric bag. Is this not the case? I’ve seen 3-5 gallon buckets with screw-top lids and rubber gaskets, that allegedly make them water/air proof. They’re only a few dollars more than snap lids can be found in hardware/home improvement stores.
I’m allowing myself plenty of time to properly hang my resupplies for this hike, I’m just curious what people think about screw-top lids vs snap lids, buckets in general, etc., especially if bears weren’t an issue. What would give a raccoon a run for it’s money if I couldn’t afford to buy 3 Ursaks or Outsaks?
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