Gear Review
Bear Vault BV450 Solo Bear Resistant Food Canister
Bear Vault BV450 Solo
By brian.king100175121
Ranked #1724 - Cookware
September 16, 2008
Good product, rugged and appears to be well engineered. It's nice to just leave the vault on the ground instead of fighting to hang your food. It's also nice to be able to see your food in the vault as compared to the black keg type that you can't see into. Bear proof containers are now mandatory in parts of the Adirondacks. Back at the trailhead a ranger informed us that some bears in the park have figured out how to get into the Bear Vault. We had no bear activity so ours is untested.
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1 Comments Last Reply: May 12, 2010 By: Cranky Hiker
After 30 years in the backcountry all over the nation, I've never lost a morsel of food to a bear and never used one of these cannisters. The requirement is another case of the Forest Service and Park Service bowing to outside pressure and outside busineses. The only problem is that many backpackers are too lazy to properly stow their food and chose trees too close to camp. Walk a half mile outside of camp, counterbalance it properly and the food will be there in the morning.
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