Making its second reappearance on this list is the Bearikade Weekender. To repeat from the last list:
I wrote about bear canisters a while back. In that entry I compared the features of the different options in the bear cansiter world so if you’d like details, there they are. The Bearikade is expensive, but I regularly hike in terrain that requires canisters and it was worth the money for me.
I save about a pound and although it is called the Weekender I can fit over a week’s worth of food in it. The only problem I have is that I waited almost 10 years to get one.
I agree that the Bearikade is an excellent canister. Unfortunately, it has not been tested by the Grizzly association, and Glacier National Park does not allow it. I emailed Bearikade about it, and got a fairly testy response that they couldn’t test it everywhere.
That’s odd, I would consider any national park with bears to be the minimum number of places a bear canister would be tested.
It seems odd to me as well. Maybe Bearikade doesn’t expect enough additional business from Glacier, Rocky Mountain and Yellowstone hikers to justify the testing hassle. Here is the link to the Grizzly testing site:
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