Cryovac meals in boilably bags

Sprink-Fitter wrote:

Trackrig wrote:
I'm not sure what you mean by cryovac'ing them, but for hunting we use a seal-a-meal bag. Put meals in them, seal them and freeze them. The frozen meals also cut down on the amount of ice needed in the coolers. They're great because all you have to do is put the frozen bagged meal in a pot of boiling water then cut the top off to serve and there's no clean up other than throwing the plastic pouch in the fire. The seal-a-meal is not a vacuum pack type packaging.

Bill

Why would you throw the plastic bag into the fire? No garbage can?

We're 30+ miles off of the road in the track rig in my signature. The trail is bad enough that mud comes in doors and that thing has been stuck.... So there's no bear proof garbage cans out there and no one would ever make it out there to empty them anyway.

We have a grizzly that lives in the same area. He likes to walk down the trail because it's the easiest walking. We'll see his tracks on the trail. About 100 yards before camp, he'll go out into the trees on the other side of the trail away from camp. Then after he's gone around our camp, he'll come back on the trail about a 100 yards past are camp.

He's a nice polite bear. He leaves us alone and we leave him alone. We don't leave any empty week old bags of food around for him to smell. The few cans we use also go into the fire to burn. When we leave, they get fished out of the camp fire and taken home.

We've seen as many as 14 black bears in the ten days we we're usually out there. Mostly they avoid the camp also, but they're a not as smart as the grizzly. We've had to chase a couple out of camp over the years. Had to chase one across the river to get rid of him.

The funniest episode was one late evening after dinner, one of the guys went behind one of the track rigs to take a leak and all of sudden we hear all sorts of yelling going on. He stepped on a year old black bear that was back there trying to get in one of the coolers. He went running one way and the bear went running the other way. Still have the cooler with teeth marks in it.

So we don't try to leave anything around camp that smells - why draw the bears and then may have to shoot some of them? We hang the moose meat about 50 yard from camp and have only had a few black bears ever bother it. The meat is hung on hanging poles. We usually leave some boned out ribs laying on the ground a little ways from the hanging meat. Once in a while at night a black will take a swipe at the hanging meat (you'll see his claw marks on it) and then decide the ribs are a better deal and drag those off down the trail.

So yes, we burn any food container that's burnable and the cans which we take home when we break camp.

Bill