[pct-l] Umbrellas

[G. Lowe aka Wheeew]

With all due respect, I believe it was Peter Jenkins that carried an umbrella on his "Walk Across America".....way before Jardine.

No one has ever been able to explain to me, why we're told, in cold weather, "you lose 1/3 of your body heat out the top of you head.  WEAR A HAT!!" and in the same breath, "Wear a hat to keep the heat off".  Wouldn't we want to let OUT that 1/3 body heat thru our head, in hot weather??  Not everyone likes hats.  I do not. I'm always hotter with one on than without.  An umbrella alleviates that problem.  If I don't like it, I'll send it home, like any other piece of gear I decide isn't a match for me.

Corn Pasta.  Absurd....to suggest that that product somehow is more sustaining on the trail that many other foods.  And what for those of us that do not cook on the trail?

I'd want proof that "most" of the heat/ radiation comes from the desert floor.    That seems unlikely.

Wheeew

Brick Robbins <brick at fastpack.com> wrote: on Jan 22, 2008 10:46 AM, Patrick Beggan <meta474 at gmail.com> wrote:
 What is this obsession with umbrellas? I mean, seriously, I'm not being a troll here -- why do so many people like them? 


Ahhhh Grasshopper!

Umbrellas are the Ray Way, the way of true enlightenment. Follow the one true path and soon you will even begin to like the one true food: corn pasta. 

But seriously, I'm in your camp. I tried an umbrella and didn't like it either, but some folks seem to.

HYOH


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