List.
I've still got my WWII has back canvas "backpack" I used to carry my
book to school in the 50's!
Mainframe
At 01:57 PM 10/5/2005, you wrote:
>--- Gary Roberts <GRoberts@npr.org> wrote:
> >
> > I was graduating from High School. ...
>
> > I carried an external frame nylon pack with a canvas support
> > system. Absolutely no adjustments whatsoever. No hip belt
> > either. It was truly light weight, still is. I know cause I
> > found it at my dad's house in a closet. Probably 2.5 lbs?
> > It's sitting in my truck as we speak.
>### Yep. Still got my firsty: An "Academy A-Line" from
>Alexanders Department Store. No hip belt, but I installed a 1.5"
>web half-belt perfectly situated to grind the bottom cross-stays
>into your kidneys.... A "quick release" buckle was *definitely*
>something for a future time.....
>
>Made a screen tent/bathtub floor in high school (after school,
>even: everybody thought Hippie Boy McGinnis had gone completely
>fruitcake -- I mean, *volunTARILY* sewing??? -- til I explained
>this was a piece of mountaineering equipment that I'd designed
>myself and wasn't available on the market. Eyes went wide,
>"EEeeeewwwww! Coooool, mannnnn" went the verbal reactions. Used
>it with a army poncho as a shelter, and went well through a
>couple of good downpours. Intend to pass it on to the boys for
>use with their Equinox silnylon ponchos.
>
>Have a Snow Lion 4 season 2 person tent: 8,000 pounds, without
>stakes. Zip-on Snowtunnel addition, too. (500 pounds.) Still
>sets up without a wrinkle.
>
>My 20*F North Face Cat's Meow, new for the AT, is flat as a
>pancake, good to about 55*F now. But still 3.1 pounds. And still
>baby blue.
>
>I have a roundish thermometer that I found in 1978 and
>immediately attached to my pack: it's been on every trip I've
>done, since. Hugely accurate, too. I love it.
>
>And my baby blue water bottle holster...... WATER! Love that
>too.
>
>There's more. (Like the GoreTex shell that almost kilt me in
>'03)
>I'll stop.
>oldtoe
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