[pct-l] Duct tape for blisters

greg mushial gmushial at gmdr.com
Fri Jul 30 20:04:42 CDT 2010


> Message: 13
> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:26:01 -0700
> From: Tortoise <Tortoise73 at charter.net>
> Subject: Re: Duct tape for blisters
> To: greg mushial <gmushial at gmdr.com>
> Cc: pct-l at backcountry.net
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> I'll let others discuss the merits of duct tape for blisters. It seems a
> lot of hikers use it because it is tough and sticks very well.
> Tortoise
> <> Because truth matters! <>

Thanks for the nudge... I did a google on "duct tape hiking blisters" and 
got a zillion hits - one being pcta.org - read there and yup, duct tape or 
medical tape..  the question then becomes: how does one carry it? A medical 
tape roll can be trimmed/stripped down to what one might need for a trip... 
but duct tape, even if one were to strip down the roll to what one might 
need, will still have a cardboard core, which weighs non-zero and takes 
space - do people maybe wrap what they might need around a water bottle 
(being a surface that it's not going to stick to terminally), and remove it 
from there as needed?? Or??
TheDuck 




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