[pct-l] 1977 Thruhike disqualified. Go back and do it again.

[jm@bluebuzz.com (John Musielewicz)]

I donno. I've used external frame packs with the size of load you are
talking about with straps at less than a 45 and now an internal with
straps at a 45 find about equal carrying capacity at a medium heavy
load like 75+ (up to maybe 85 or 90). If I was carrying a  heavy load
now and carrying it any distance I'd want to use a good custom pack
frame, probably something along the3 lines of a packboard,  anyway
with the load properly distributed and lashed which you really can't
do with these commercial packs. Then I would be worrying about the
angle of the straps and want the angle custom fit to my body. I would
certainly want space between the upper part of the straps. Curious to
know what a yoke suspen is since a yoke is quite diferant in design
from a backpack suspenstion.



On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 14:31:53 EDT, you wrote:

>Reynold writes:
>
>> You were carrying the load too LOW. On a non-yoke shoulder system the
>> shoulder straps should go up from the shoulders at a 45 degree angle to the
>> frame. Generally, this means the location where the straps join the frame
>> should be 2-3 inches above the top of the shoulder.
>
>Yea, right.  Just try to carry that large of a pack, filled to the gills, 
>weighing it at 75+ lbs with the shoulder straps going back at a 45 degree 
>angle!  You would have to have the damn waste belt pulled into what the old 
>Aussie convicts used to call a "gut pinch".  The waste belt would be so tight 
>that it would cut off circulation to your hips and legs and you'd fall down 
>like a pigmy overloaded with an elephant just twenty yards down the trail.
>
>With that much weight you HAVE to balance the load of the weight between the 
>shoulders and waste or else one or the other wears out.  It typically is 
>shifted back and forth to lessen the deadening of nerves in either place.  
>
>What the hell is a "non-yoke shoulder system"?  I'll take mine sunny side up 
>with the yoke please, but throw away the white!
>
>Oh, any any salty '77er worth his damn wouldn't turn states evidence on a 
>comrad for all of the polarguard in China!
>
>Greg
>
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