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Re: [at-l] ultralight morons



E. George Oeser wrote:

> When I went shopping for a pack to use when I went ultralight the sales
> person asked me what I would be using the pack for, when I told him it
> would be for week long trips in the summer he almost refused to sell me the
> 2100 cubic inch pack I was looking at. He even went as far as saying that I
> must not have much backpacking experience if I thought I could go a week in
> that small of a pack. 

Ditto here!  Word of warning...if you want to buy some light weight or 
even mid weight boots from LLBean, be sure and lie when they ask you 
what you plan to use them for.  For pete's sake, don't tell them the AT! 
I finally gave up and hung up.  One lost sale for them...
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