Re[2]: [at-l] MountainTools FlexFrame: Any Experience?

>     How much weight have you carried in it and how did you like it? I'm
>     wavering between declaring myself "for" a toploader (as is the
>     Mountainlight 5200) or not. The '99 MLs (3500 and 5000) will be
>     toploaders only. Is it a pain or should I look for a panel-loader?
>
>     I tried the Mountainlight against a Frostfire, an Osprey
>     something-or-other, and a Dana Glacier (Arc-light). And against my 25
>     year old pvc external (with third set of shoulder straps and hip
>     belt). At 45lbs. it was roughly a 4-way tie, with the Osprey coming in
>     fifth. At 38lbs., it was a tie between the Mountainlight and my
>     external, with the Dana and Frostfire tied for third, and the Osprey
>     still fifth. At 35lbs or less, the Mountainlight won walking away; and
>     this is what our heaviest AT pack weights will be. I have seen similar
>     results on an ultralight page, and now consider that source much more
>     credible. (I am human, after all.)
>
>     So how much weight?
>     Top or Panel?
>     And how has it held up?
>     AND and, would you get it again?
>
>
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>Subject: Re: [at-l] MountainTools FlexFrame: Any Experience?
>Author:  "Tom Griffiths" <datto999@hotmail.com> at ima
>Date:    9/29/98 7:02 AM
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>
>>>Mountainsmith MountainLight ($300, 5000ci, 3lbs. foreign made)
>
>I have the Mountainsmith Mountainlight 5200.
>
>Ask away if you have questions.
>
>Datto
>
>
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