[pct-l] Dixon Rollerpack

[Bob Bankhead]

I sure wouldn't want to be pulling that thing through the sand and volcanic pumice between Mojave and Kennedy Meadows, or making some of those high rocky traverses and tight turns. 

The geometry scares me; picture a right triangle....... The rollerpack is 56 inches long (aka the hypotenuse of the right triangle). My waist is 38 inches above ground level (the vertical side of the right triangle). Using the Pythagorean Theorem, I discover that the wheel is 41 inches behind me. I'm dragging a 41 inch weighted tail.

If that wheel slips off the trail, the weight of the whole thing will swing like a pendulum with your hips as the fulcrum. Seems like an easy way to fall or get dragged off balance.

No, thanks!


----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Scott Bryce 
  To: pct-l at backcountry.net 
  Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 8:09 AM
  Subject: Re: [pct-l] Dixon Rollerpack


  JONATHAN Salzwedel wrote:
  > Anyone have any advise whether the Dixon Rollerpack is an option on
  > the PCT.  Especially NB to Kennedy Meadows?  Any feedback would be
  > appreciated.  Jon

  That has been discussed here before. The conclusion that was reached is
  that the Rollerpack is a wheeled device and would not be allowed on the PCT.
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