My last backpacking trip, year and a half ago, some people used the Ursack when I was trying to hang food. And sometimes I was unable to find a good food tree. I was aware of the Ursack before that but had never looked into it.

And one campsite, a couple hikers came in after I had made camp, they made a quick supper and one guy took his Ursack and tied it around a tree about chest high. I asked about that and he said that it was good enough if you use a good knot.

I invested in an Ursack.

I think I would hang it higher where I can, but where I can't I will probably just do what he did. But like I mentioned above, I have a dry bag that fits the inside of it perfectly, that should keep my food drier and hopefully reduce the scent of food.






There are about 20 person days of food hanging on that line in the photo below, used two rescue pulleys.