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RE: [pct-l] Lightening your pack, for couples.
Are there commercial couplers, or do you make them yourself? We were
planning to make one and would welcome any suggestions you may have.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Umstead, Tim (SD-EX) [SMTP:TUmstead@gi.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 1998 3:30 PM
> To: pct-l@saffron.hack.net
> Subject: [pct-l] Lightening your pack, for couples.
>
>
> I thing my wife and I have done for years is to hike with only one
> sleeping bag and a coupler. The coupler turns your sleeping bag into
> a
> big blanket. We have spent several nights in sub-zero temperatures
> and
> not been cold. In so ways it is even wormier, remember, you have two
> people heating up the sleeping bag not one. Another nice thing is,
> you
> get rid to the weigh of one sleeping bag. True it is best if your
> hiking partner is your significant other, but.... We have used two
> different companies equipment Marmot and Feathered Friends. Feathered
> Friends has the lightest sleeping bags that we have found. You will
> pay
> for it, and there is a waiting list.
> http://www.featheredfriends.com/featherd/bags.htm
>
> Tim and Ann
> The Ravens PCT '96
>
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