[pct-l] Golite Gust

[bharve at dslextreme.com (Bruce Harvey)]

Golite 'Speed' model bought in 2003 slouches when load doesn't fill the pack 
volume.  The 'Speed' Doesn't have a foam pad, but since the 'Gust' pad 
doesn't provide any form that you want, the two packs probably slouch 
similarly.  Your cure of rolling a sleeping pad, inserting in pack then 
expanding inside the pack to form a tube has worked well with a Thermarest, 
but in the Speed model a Ridgerest doesn't leave much room.  A ridgerest msy 
work well in the considerably larger 'Gust'.

The 'Speed' model has a hydration bladder pocket.  A piece of foam poster 
board cut to size and inserted in the pocket as a frame sheet has worked 
well for me.  Got the poster board free after a conference, when the board 
was headed to trash.  It is slightly under 1/4 inch thick, made of foam 
sandwiched between glued-on poster paper sheets..  The Gust doesn't have a 
hydration bladder pocket, but you could experiment with some poster board 
combined with judicious placement of soft goods.  An experiment that might 
give a comfy ride but difficult pack loading: Put poster board inside 
sleeping bag, all the way to the foot.  Slide the one-third (approx) length 
of sleeping bag with poster board into pack, to ride against your back, and 
with the foot of sleeping bag toward top of pack.  Stuff the rest of 
sleeping bag into bottom of pack.  Then practice curse control while loading 
remainder of things into pack.  LOL

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Julliard" <atjulliard@yahoo.com>
To: <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 10:49 AM
Subject: [pct-l] Golite Gust


>  I have a Golite Gust that was a gift from friends.
> I have yet to use it for backpacking but have used it
> to haul gear on a climbing trip.  It has a larger
> volume and more weight than the Breeze as it is meant
> to be a climber's pack, though I was not impressed.
> It lacks the side pockets that the Breeze has (side
> pockets are not ususally found on modern climbing
> packs as they catch on rock, etc.).  It has a
> contoured foam pad that fits in an internal sleeve; by
> contoured, they mean shaped which makes it utterly
> useless for substituting a better and more practical
> foam sleeping pad, which you can do with the Gossamer
> Gear G4 and G5.  This contoured foam pad has a bad
> habit of bunching up when you use the waist belt,
> causing the pack to slump into a "C" shape against the
> back.  I found it works better to simply insert a
> rolled up sleeping pad, expand the pad within the pack
> and place gear within the resulting "tube", then throw
> the contoured pad out.  I have thought that maybe I
> could glue a piece of plastic (like from a kid's
> rollup sled) to the contoured foam pad to add some
> stiffness so it carries better but that would add
> weight.  Has anyone tackled this problem before with
> the Gust?
>
> Alan
>
>
>
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