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From: Alpvalsys@AOL.COM
Date: Tue Aug 08 2000 - 18:54:02 CDT
In a message dated 8/8/00 1:26:28 PM EDT, Jim Woolly wrote:
<< Just packing in from the parking lot is often good enough. >>
That was all the backpacking that some Scouts got when I was an SA,
although the SM did, occasionally, have the drivers go out a mile or so on
the morning we left camp. But almost everyone had a backpack; it was simply
the easiest way to carry personal gear with sleeping bag and pad. The
venture patrol would sometimes go for the backcountry backpacking trips, but
not all older Scouts participated.
And one thing to make sure of is that your pack will hold all the gear in.
My son and I bought our first packs on sale at Eureka and the first thing we
did was have my wife sew in some drawstring collars; that big flap that came
down over the top just didn't cut it. I later bought a Kelty with a thousand
adjustments and gave my by then six-foot-plus son my Eureka (his was a
"youth" size); worked just fine at Philmont two years ago. I guess I should
mention that I added a couple of tie-downs that were not on the pack
originally.
Ralph V. Balfoort, Unit Commissioner
Albany, NY
I used to be a Beaver.... (NE III-135)
In the Beaver Patrol as a Scout, too,
and now Ktemaque (Beaver) Chapter,
Haudenosaunee Lodge #19, OA
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