What is better? I used both of it. Barrel is safer, but i don't like how it looks like. What you think?
For even a few days on the river I would rather have both. A “barrel”, even a small one, appropriately sized for food/cookware, and dry bags or packs for everything else. I want food in a hard shell, waterproof, odor-proof, un-nibble-able container. I do not like storing food or cook wear in dry bags. Bears be danged, it’s the rodents that will get you.
But for a weekend solo trip even the 30L barrel is massive food storage overkill.
The white barrel in the first photo is Cur-Tec wide neck drum.
http://www.curtec.com/en/products/drums/wide-neck-drums
Those Cur-Tec “drums” are a much better shape for packing than \_/ shaped pails. A better shape both for fitting food and etc inside the barrel (drum), and the container itself fits more neatly in a canoe.
I cut off three of the four lid handles on the smaller ones and tie a cord handle through the molded flange on the drum body for oppositional force when screwing and unscrewing the lid.
I have seen more of those Cur-Tec’s in use recently, and have a couple of the 10 litre/2.6 gallon ones. Two of them are food packed and stacked right now.
I wish I could find the 15 litre/4 gallon or 20 litre/5.3 gallons ones from a repurposed source. It would be packing advantageous to have choices of a 30L or 60L barrels as well as 15 or 20 litre hard sides.
I have leak tested them, half filled with water and upside down. Not a drop.
If anyone finds a repurposed purveyor of Cur-Tec wide mouth drums let me know. I want a 15L or 20L.