<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 7:53 PM Warin <<a href="mailto:61sundowner@gmail.com">61sundowner@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div dir="ltr">On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 7:23 PM Warin <<a href="mailto:61sundowner@gmail.com" target="_blank">61sundowner@gmail.com</a>>
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'animal resistant boxes'? Would a more universal tag be
better? <br>
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<div>I've generally heard these referred to as "bear boxes"
regardless of the species they're intended to guard
against. Granted, my exposure to such facilities is limited
and I am bear-biased.</div>
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American English? Fortunately the UK does not seem to suffer from
this issue, so there is no British English example we can use. <br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Well, of course, they hunted their bears to extinction and turned 'em into hats. I think Canadian trappers are now the current source.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
For someone who is not familiar with the term 'bear box' it may
sound like bears are stored in there. <br>
"Food storage box" might be better? <br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Fair point. Food storage box would just mean any kind of camp staple box at a semipermanent encampment, though, and most staple boxes are just basically resistance against weather and vermin, typically raised off the ground about waist high on the low side with a lid that flips out as a food preparation surface, but wouldn't survive initial contact with a bear interested in its contents. Common at locations where backpackers typically travel in groups of around half a dozen and stay encamped for several days at a shot in order to facilitate a single common kitchen.</div><div><br></div><div>Quick Google search suggests "staple box" is not particularly known outside of Parks Canada, Scouts Canada and Scouts BSA circles, though, with kitchen box being slightly more common in North America and "chuck box uk" actually being the first autocomplete when you start typing "chuck box" in Google. Chuck box seems to also be the most unambiguous and british term available.</div><div><br></div><div>So, for any such box, perhaps amenity=chuck_box and if it's purpose built against some kind of specific threat to its contents, then hardened=yes?</div><div><br></div><div>I'm not married to the terminology, but I am ready to buy in.</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> I am surprised raccoons are not a
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<div>They are, but unlike bears (especially black bears),
raccoons haven't figured out how to open car doors from the
outside yet. Probably owing to their rather short stature
being unable to reach the door handle. <br>
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If they team together they can form a pyramid for the reach, only
need to figure out the handle then. <br>
Can they do zippers? Raiding tents and backpacks then becomes
possible.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Can confirm that raccoons don't bother with zippers, they just go through. Learned the hard way at Cape Foulweather State Park to tree packs with food when my pack got raided the first campout I had in the Scouts. Only had to ruin my grandfather's US Army pack he brought back from World War II, which had additionally survived an extended backpacking trip across Afghanistan my mother took when it was under Soviet control in the process (I learned how to restore it after that, and ended up getting a more modern pack better suited for backpacking).</div></div></div>