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Re: [at-l] Gear Guidelines ???

I would recommend you put on your loaded pack and then hike around the
neighborhood a few blocks.  You'll soon know whether or not your pack is
fitted/adjusted properly.  Pop in on a local outfitter and ask their
advice.  It's difficult to say how to adjust your pack straps from this end
of a keyboard.

"Time-Maker" - Ern Grover
www.tick-tock.com

"The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds." 

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> From: A A Sarra <AASarra@aol.com>
> To: AT List <at-l@saffron.hack.net>
> Subject: [at-l] Gear Guidelines ???
> Date: Saturday, May 23, 1998 9:07 AM
> 
> This may be a question impossible to answer thru the EMail medium but I
have
> to ask it anyway on the perhaps chance...
> 
> As I mentioned several weeks ago on this list, my sons, sons-in-law and I
are
> committed to a five day backpacking trip on the AT in southwest VA.
> Hopefully, this is the first of what will become an annual family event. 
> 
> We have everything all set, menus planned, gear purchased or borrowed,
> shuttles arranged and so forth but it occurred to me last night that
since we
> are all novices using new and/or unfamiliar gear, that despite our best
> efforts we are quite likely to find that we have problems with the fit of
our
> our packs.
> 
> We have different kinds of packs, external frame and internal frame, new
stuff
> and stuff left over from boy scout days of years past.  
> 
> The question:  Are there any tips for 1) how to identify in an ill
fitting
> pack by some means other than pain; and, 2) do you have any general
guidelines
> for how to properly readjust a pack on the trail ??  We leave late next
week
> so those of you away enjoying the holiday can answer at your leisure when
you
> get home and you won't be too late. 
> 
> Counting on you.  Thanks in advance.
> 
> This is Cap'n Al reminding you to remember why it is called Memorial Day.
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