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[astrogirl at aol.com (Nicole Markee)]

On Mar 21, 2005, at 19:23, amy wrote:

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> On Mar 21, 2005, at 7:13 PM, Nicole Markee wrote:
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>>  I've switched this year to a G5 pack, and I'm kind of nervous about 
>> having so little sleeping pad, so I'll probably do a shake out 
>> overnight in SNP north from Loft Mountain.  Thank you to whomever 
>> gave me the tip of using a little bag full of rocks instead of a 
>> carabiner or my frustrating attempts to tie a cord around a rock.  
>> That's 1.5 ounces I don't have to carry.
>
> Yeah, isn't that nice?  :)

Yep.  I discovered two years ago that I preferred a radio to a book, 
and this year, I've cut the radio weight almost in half.  I thought I 
had the lightest radio around, but then I saw someone with an 
itsy-bitsy one last year.  They are pretty cheap -- the shipping costs 
more than the radio,  so now I have a lighter one.

Mind the ounces and the pounds will mind themselves, eh?

> No, but I used a G4 for my 2002 section hike.  I found that for me I 
> couldn't get the back stiff enough with a pad.  I ended up sticking my 
> trowel in the pad to add stiffness - and my TP over the trowel to give 
> myself some lumbar support.  :)  Even with that, the G4 didn't work 
> out for me.  Torso was too long.  Or my torso's too short.

As I said in another post, I'm used to no frame and the Z-Rest provides 
more of a frame than I've had in the Breeze anyway.  The Breeze has to 
be packed carefully so that nothing pokes you, and it's a relief to not 
worry about that.  I've been doing local climbs with the G5 pack loaded 
to just under 20 lbs. (some gear and 4 liters of water) and it carries 
fairly well.  I do not expect to carry that much weight, but it's added 
a lot of challenge to my normal exercise schedule.

> I'm doing a shakedown in my yard tonight.  Got my hammock set up and 
> I'm testing it down to about 30 without a pad, using an underquilt.  
> Just noticed my tarp is fraying, though. :(  I don

You know, I've never slept in the yard?  I'm not sure I could take the 
look I would get from Tino.  He already thinks I'm nuts, but this might 
push things to the point where he'd be calling the men with the 
butterfly nets.  ;)

-Astrogirl