Re: [at-l] Introduction

["Alice Kauzlarich" <kauzlar@madison.main.nc.us>]

If you want light wgt. you will find that a mummy bag is the only way to
go, also down being lighter than the synthetics.

 The Highlander


                                                      

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> From: JannaPet@aol.com
> To: at-l@backcountry.net
> Cc: jrowen@ibm.net; patv@falcon.cc.ukans.edu
> Subject: Re: [at-l] Introduction
> Date: Friday, October 30, 1998 5:44 AM
> 
> Thank-you!  Will check out the forum and wait, or try to, for the gear
issue.
> Haven't hiked much and the first time I tried, I used my camping gear.
> Well let me tell you, it did not take me long to figure out that a nine
pound
> bag should stay within a mile of the car. So I did rent a mummybag or
that's
> what 
> they called it.  It was so small I might as well have wrapped myself in a

> couple dozen ace bandages.  Now i know why they call them mummy bags.
> I'd have to be dead to get in one again!! So I think I might have to make
some
> chnges in what's in my pack before I try this again ;> <wink> 
> As far as to what's in my head, a lot of room and a silly dream.    JP
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