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Decorating an Ursack

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PostedMay 10, 2024 at 12:43 pm

There are plenty of articles on how to properly tie an Ursack, but none on the all important question of how to decorate them.

I am going to be hiking with other Ursack users, so how do I properly personalize my otherwise anonymous black bag?  Stickers seem like they would come off easily (score one point for bear cans), but I worry that the heat from applying an iron on patch would damage the material.  I suppose I could put a colorful carabiner around a cord, but that is just asking to fall off and get lost.

 

Todd T BPL Member
PostedMay 10, 2024 at 6:17 pm

Judging by how readily mine (white) takes on dirt of various colors, ashes, etc., I’d say maybe write your name on yours (black) with chalk?

Tom K BPL Member
PostedMay 10, 2024 at 10:35 pm

Dye the draw string(cord) that secures the Ursack.

d k BPL Member
PostedMay 11, 2024 at 1:38 am

I second the fabric paint idea. I used that to make a design on my backpack when my partner and I bought identical packs.

PostedMay 12, 2024 at 8:57 am

Tom, it’s a black ursack with a black cord!

Fabric paint seems to be the winner so far

Roger Moore BPL Member
PostedMay 12, 2024 at 9:14 am

Yellow paint pen. I use them to mark my black wetsuits. of various thicknesses. (Of which I own and use a shameful amount for spearfishing.) They have various colors.

https://a.co/d/72j3wXc

Susan M BPL Member
PostedMay 12, 2024 at 9:35 am

Carabiner your mug to the tie rope when you attach it to the tree.

Jedi BPL Member
PostedMay 13, 2024 at 1:58 pm

Ursack with paint and sticker and bear damageI used reflective stickers (the kind you can get at a hardware store for putting on your mailbox or a vehicle), and I also used red spray paint. But the spray paint didn’t “take” very well at all. It was billed as “self-priming” and for “all surfaces”, but it just didn’t coat the textured fabric very well.

Attached is a photo showing one of the stickers and the paint job. In case you’re wondering, those holes are teeth marks made by a black bear the previous night when it tried to pull my Ursack off the tree it was tied to! This was on the AT at Cold Spring Shelter in 2022.

Whatever you do, even if it looks like crap it will at least be unique and no one else will confuse it with their own… which is the whole point isn’t it?

jscott Blocked
PostedMay 15, 2024 at 5:54 pm

Do nothing. Then out in the field, claim the one with bear slobber on it is your friend’s.

jj BPL Member
PostedMay 15, 2024 at 8:10 pm

pentel presto white out pen? or pilot silver paint marker?

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