Bear Bag Tutorial

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hey this mission it's a Bible today we're gonna set up a bear bag stay tuned okay

so a bear bag pretty simple it's a dry bag I have some rope wrap around it all the time so I can easily tie it up into a tree and they you should keep a bag of food with me you know protein bars and stable meat chorizo tea things like that on average my bag is usually three pounds minimum of food it's all stable it's all packaged does any refrigeration I just keep in my bag all the time when it gets low I just add more now when you're camping and will in a serious with that might be bears or raccoons or skunks or anything like that you don't want to leave especially with bears you know you don't even want to leave things in the package in your camp like this in your rucksack in your tent underneath your tarp because they could come looking for it and you don't want to be there when they find it half-eaten packages of chorizo things like that a perfect for putting into a dry bag so you can hermetically seal it we've hung rabbits in the trees also things Vishnu your eye bag okay I like to use the Ceylon eco see dry bag because it's clear I can see all the contents in it and it's BPA free so if I decide to use this for water container it's better than using a rubber one you have pots and pans make sure you buy a dry bag that's big enough for them to fit obviously this is big enough the canteen cups this is big enough for Billy cans no problem at all okay just roll it good

yeah it's sealed nice to have some power cord tied to it with two half hitches I have it tied to not the little plastic d-ring operative word plastic I actually have it tied to the actual strapping that makes up the top of the bag so it's tied to the bag itself okay so there's two schools of thought here on location one is you want your bear bag quarter mile to a half mile away from your camp your sleeping camp and you keep it in what's called your cooking camp or even off your cooking camp a quarter mile just in case they smelled food or on your cooking camp they'll be sniffing around there you can have it as a satellite location off your cooking camp so they won't find your food hanging right above where you cook it but usually in that area and you camp half mile quarter mile away something like that it's up to you but usually it's a broad distance the other method is to keep it within sight of your camp so you keep it on the outskirts of your vision but close enough so you can see it and you can hear what's going on and that's if you have a firearm like a shotgun or anything similar and you're able to scare the bear away that is useful if you're in a wilderness traveling situation so say you're moving over a long distance over very adverse terrain you know maybe you're canoeing in your way in the backcountry think Sweden think Alaska think Russia and think Canada and you're you're really I mean you're gone your way out there and you cannot afford all your food to be wiped out by a bear because if a bear finds it and you don't even know about it because you are sleeping a mile away and you have a shotgun and a way to scare the bear away and save your rations then you need to do that because if you don't have that to fall back on you're in big trouble big trouble so that's the other way to look at it you know if you're if you're dog sledding and you're hundreds of kilometres and and you're not near anything and you you need to protect your provisions so just in case of bear finds them they don't eradicate your ability to sustain yourself in a very harsh environment but that means that you need to have a way to defend your rations okay so another thing you want to do is not hang your bag so it's right next to the trunk so if a bear climbs up it can get to it you want to hang it off of a branch anyone hanging off of a branch that doesn't seem like it can support the weight of a bear so it's not going to be able to go on there like a nice sturdy oak branch and just take your food that's hanging from there you also want to make sure that your food is hanging down low enough so even if by chance you misjudged what that branch could hold and that bear does make its way onto the branch it still can't reach your food it has to try to pull the line up to get your food it just adds you know more variables to the Bears problem have a branch that I found a camp had been cut I'm able to make a tripod or a bow something like that we're gonna put a constrictor knot it's a clove hitch variation

so I've selected the branch I'm gonna use good arm's length I'm gonna do is pull down my stick tighten my rope which is going to obviously elevate the bag so I want to get that bag about five six feet I love there I think they will do it's about six feet hanging from the branch I'm going to just come around it's gonna tie the knot just real simple so I'm gonna do two half hitches this one into that's all really easy let's tie up a simple knot now solid it's not going anywhere well mr. missionary survival pre-shave use tongs nice work let's see you the next one take care