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[pct-l] Old Kelty Pack found
- Subject: [pct-l] Old Kelty Pack found
- From: viveka1111 at yahoo.com (vivek)
- Date: Thu Aug 14 12:34:18 2003
- In-Reply-To: <18a.1e07ce13.2c6bbdb7@aol.com>
How is the hip belt on the old frame pack holding out.
When I was hiking the PCT, I ran into some neck/shoulder problems. A trail angel gave me an old boy scout frame pack (with the pockets sewn on upside down). After a few weeks, the hipbelt would slide loose on its own, which meant I ended up carrying all the weight on my shoulders anyways. thankfully, it did give my neck time to recover.
The hip belt had a saw tooth type clasp on it to keep it from sliding, which apparently didn't work. I was wondering if the old Kelty's used the same system back then.
Bighummel@aol.com wrote:
I found an almost new condition, TexSport, frame pack that I haven't measured
but is close to my old Tioga in volume and weighs 3.4 pounds with all of the
attachments and bells and whistles. I can probably shave another 8 ounces off
by removing some of the unnecessary attachment points, etc. That makes for
one hell of a lightweight, full size, frame pack. I paid $10 at a garage sale.
It is made fairly well and weathered well an arduous canyoneering,
bushwacking, river crossing, rock climbing, off trail adventure down the Sth Fork of
the Kern River last weekend. What I like about it is that it doesn't divide the
main bag up like Kelty did in later models, but allows you access to the
bottom of the bag thru the front of the pack with a horseshoe zipper. Our group
also had two small Outdoor Research internal frame packs, an old Jansport frame
pack and my old Tioga. It was a consensus that the frame packs were much
more comfortable in the heat but the internals were better in the bushwacking,
boulder hopping and rock climbing (note that hiking the PCT you would be doing
very little of this overall).
I guess that I'm still designing my "ultimate", lightweight, frame pack and
just can't get away from the coolness in heat, the ease of organization, etc.
I just have to figure out how to make a frame out of Easton aluminum arrow
shafts and a bag out of sil nylon! ;-)
Strider
aka Greg Hummel
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