jedi jeffi wrote:
I use both, 115 bag for clothes and sleeping stuff.
Barrel for food and another barrel for my camera gear.
All fit into my dedicated solo boat length wise.
Same here. 115L portage pack for clothes, tent and etc soft stuff, barrel for food and cookware. My boats are outfitted to “trap” a barrel between a thwart and a couple minicel wedges contact cemented to the floor so the barrel can’t move.
P2260054 by
Mike McCrea, on Flickr
P2270071 by
Mike McCrea, on Flickr
Even without the strap the barrel stays unrollably locked in place. (Excuse the exercise flooring; that is an early ‘80’s Explorer that had been outfitted several times before I bought it, and the floor was a horrible mess of old adhesive residue)
Two reasons barrel and pack; I have seen too many soft side packs chewed into by rodents going after food, and I don’t want food or cookware odors on my clothes, sleeping bag or tent.
littleredcanoe wrote:
a 60 liter barrel is overkill for two people for three days. You can do with a thirty.. Or a gamma lid bucket that fits into a Duluth style pack
For food and cookware storage a 30L would be more suited size and (filled) weight wise. It is hard to resist filling the void in a half full 60L, but they get heavy fast.
The only time we use our 60L barrel is on 4-person family trips, when one of my strong, healthy backed sons carries the damn thing. On long solo trips I use a 45L barrel, the one in the photo above. I have managed to fit twenty two days worth of food in that 45L barrel (with some freeze dry meals in a small dry bag at the start).
On short trips I sometimes use two 10L Curtec wide neck drums, which fit nicely inside an old pack.
https://www.curtec.com/en/products/drum ... neck-drumsI wish those wide neck drums were more widely available used; Durable, leak-tested waterproof, the wide neck is ideal for packing and the short squat 10 L’s can fit in a lot of in-canoe spaces where a 30L barrel won’t go. Mine are leftovers, originally shipped with laboratory salts.