[pct-l] Making Your Own Gear

[Maria (Ria)]

Thanks Switchback for the great link. I think I will explore this option further as I am a seamstress from way, way back and can sew and make just about anything. Making  sleeping bag or tarptent would be a whole new adventure for me. 
   
  Beyond the cost saving consideration of making your own gear; for me, there is the personal satisfaction in making something myself!
   
  I'd love to make you some gear; but I probably live way too far away for it to be do-able....
   
  ~~Ria, aka Maria
  
Hiker97 <hiker97 at aol.com> wrote:
      Just a reminder for the 2008 campaign.  Go to Thru-Hiker.com and see the kits they have for clothing, etc., you can make and save A LOT of money.  I think making your gear would be very rewarding for the trail.  I have had semi-custom gear made over at nanutakusa.com, but that is the extent of my experience.  And that was expensive.  Ray Jardine was a big advocate of making your own gear.  
   
  May be some other folks know of other sites for kits to make gear.  I need some Terminators to make my gear for free.  That would be cool.
   
  Your pal, Switchback the Seamstress Not
   
    
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