Black bears closing AT campsites..,

Oddly enough a PCT hang isn’t allowed in Sequiia Kings Canyon NP, only counter balance and canisters (or steel lockers). I’ve never seen an explanation for why but I can only suspect the park doesn’t trust that the extra line will be tucked properly out of reach of the bears.

www.nps.gov/seki/planyourvisit/bear_bc.htm

Ditto with Inyo. Counterbalance.

www.fs.usda.gov/detail/inyo/recreation/?cid=fsbdev3_003846

When I hiked early spring with an ice axe (hiking length not short) I’d tie off my second bag at a height where I’d use the axe to push them even and out of reach, a safety margin in case a cub went out on the branch and it lost some height. To get it down I had to hook the bottom strap on one of the stuff sacks.

If you’re using trekking poles something involving one of them might do: hook the carabiner with the wrist strap? Or?

ETA: yes iirc (I’ve not done anything but counterbalance or canister since the 90’s) I tended to wrap up the loose end and tuck it on the bottom of the food stuff sack where mine had a strap (it was an old sleeping bag sack) with my ice axe or trekking pole. I also used black cord. That Rancheria failure they’d used white cord and I guessed visible was bad.., I’d do the same with a counterbalance: I don’t leave anything dangling for a bear to grab.

Truth be told I do not miss all that engineering versus my canisters.