This includes food, snacks, deodorant, sunscreen, toothpaste, etc. Divide the items amongst two stuff sacks. Put a little more in one than the other as this will help in hoisting the bags up in the tree. With the exception of cubs, brown bears cannot climb trees. It is also prudent to select a limb which is generally free of needles or growth.
Many individuals inadvertently lose their rope in a tree due to entanglement.
Have on hand at least 50 feet of small to medium diameter cord or rope. Untie the rock, and tie your heaviest stuff sack on this end first. Using the free end of the rope, hoist up the heavy stuff sack as high as you can, or until it touches the limb from which it is hanging. While holding the heavy sack up in the tree, tie the second sack as high as you can on the section of rope which you are holding. Gather all the remaining rope or cord and stuff into the sack, but leave a little loop outside the sack which you can grab onto with the stick, pole, or staff to retrieve it later.