Vent: everyone says hang your food bag 10 feet up, but a black bear at Lake George proved that wrong for me
Slept near the Adirondack town of Lake George last August, woke at 2am to a 250 pound bear sitting on a branch 12 feet up pulling my food bag toward him like it was nothing, so I now hang mine 15 feet up and 8 feet out from the trunk and just accept looking paranoid to every hiker who walks by.