Re: [at-l] Recent 2000milers: How'd your pack's padding h

[kahley7 <kahley7@ptd.net>]

I'd try that at home first.  Never know when you might develop
a sensitivity to something and then you are stuck with it all over
your pack or straps.  I only mention this because last week I
had a really odd reaction to something that made my back
itch like crazy almost from the moment I started hiking.  I was
wearing clothes that I had worn before but it is possible that they
had been washed in something different than normal.  Anyway....
it was so bad that I had to drop pack and pull off my shirt to do
a bear rub on a tree about once and hour.....even after I switched
the suspect shirt.  The irritation continued for two days while hiking
and for two hours post shower. Not fun...
 .  So beware or be bear/bare <g>  k./\

Thomas McGinnis wrote:

>      I'm thinking a little "Anti-Bacterial" Dove (You're soaking in it)
>      wiped lightly on the offending padding (especially on a rainy day)
>      might do the trick, but I don't have an internal/frameless to try it
>      on yet. (AH! I'll just sneak some onto Alison's!) Anybody try Dr.
>      Bronner's Peppermint Wonder Cure-all Soap and World Conflict
>      Godhead-in-Mankind Salve on their pack?
>
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> Subject: Re: [at-l] Recent 2000milers: How'd your pack's padding hold
> Author:  kahley7 <kahley7@ptd.net> at ima
> Date:    11/24/98 6:30 AM
>
> Thomas McGinnis wrote:
>
> >
> >      And a side issue:
> >      How was the stink factor on your pack?
> >      Were you able to reduce it any via soaps or sprays?
>
> I haven't tried it on a pack yet but that stuff Fabreeze works some.
> It took Hub's new kitten, Kat tahdin, a day or two to grasp the whole
> kitty door to the outside deal.  He seemed to think that 'doing' inside
> in front of the window was good enough!  After normal clean up,
> I used the fabreeze and was amazed.  It also worked on the dog bed
> covers.  Of course this means nothing to the current question. Neither
> Kat caca or wet dog can hold a candle to a thru hiker or a thru hiker's pack.
> But next season, I'm gonna pack a bottle of it and just spray'em down before
> they get into the van <VVBG>                                k./\
>
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