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[Lindsey Sommer]

Yep, definitely, she calls her pack "monster" and it's massive size is a
huge ongoing issue through the whole experience.

See: (I'm not sure this link will work, since maybe you need facebook)
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=338756449482985&set=pb.322155257809771.-2207520000.1405189180.&type=3&theater


On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 11:15 AM, <ekingc at gmail.com> wrote:

> In the book the huge weight and size of her pack is a prominent theme.
>
> > On Jul 12, 2014, at 1:06 PM, Sean Nordeen <sean.nordeen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > oops.  I dropped the subject line somehow.  I was talking about the
> > Wild Trailer.
> >
> >> On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Sean Nordeen <sean.nordeen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> I want to know why no one is talking about the huge external frame
> >> backpack in that trailer.  It looks like photos I've seen of our PCT
> >> '77 alumni.  I've personally never seen a pack that big on the PCT.
> >> I've seen them on other trails on people doing short distances though.
> >> But its so rare to see an external frame anymore.  I have my doubts
> >> about going over 1000 miles in one unless they were young and strong.
> >> Especially doing so while watching most hikers with much smaller and
> >> lighter packs constantly passing you.  That would have to be a huge
> >> morale crusher.
> >>
> >> Did she really use a pack that big, or is this just a case of
> >> Hollywood using it as a prop because they think a pack like that
> >> matches the average person's perceptions about backpacking?  Which we
> >> all know were mostly formed from 70's era movies and TV shows.  Tiny
> >> packs just don't give that feeling of suffering that backpacking is
> >> all about.  ;-)
> >>
> >> -Miner
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