I’m planning an August Brooks Range trip, and am thinking I’ll want to cache boats for a couple of days of side-trip hiking. I found this old thread inquiring about hard-sided cases for a cache, http://packrafting.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1017, but I haven’t seen anything since then. How have other folks approached this? Has anyone had problems with just leaving a boat, pfd, and paddle under a bush in a nylon duffel? Or is normal practice to cache boats in a hard-sided case or bear can?
After seeing many pictures of bear shredded rafts I have always hung mine like you would food. I don’t think I could fit my raft in most bear cans. Also, it is much easier to carry rope.
Thanks for the advice. I’ll modify our itinerary to cache someplace where trees are available for a hang. Can anyone confirm that there are trees sufficient to hang a two-alpacka cache near Circle Lake on the Alatna? Photos of the area suggest yes.