[at-l] Re: foam pad for sitting

["Frank Reid" <reid@indiana.edu>]

"R. L. (Dick) Wix" <wixer@sparc.isl.net> writes:

>I carry a piece of closed cell foam about a foot square as a "butt
>pad"... Came in very handy after I lost about 40 lbs...

I know a guy who was trapped for several days in a wet cave at 54 degrees.
He says that having a 1-sq-foot foam pad to sit on was important in
preventing hypothermia.  (Other anti-hypothermia eqpt. included trash bags
and carbide lamps.)

 --  Frank     reid@indiana.edu
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