[pct-l] Bright tent colors

[hiker97 at aol.com (hiker97@aol.com)]

Actually, I had not thought about reflective tape on rainflys too.  That is an excellent recommendation.  Brilliant! I will now put that in Super Secrets and act like I thought of it.  No one will ever know.
 
Your hiking buddy, Switchback
Integrity Is My Middle Name
 
-----Original Message-----
From: cmkudija@earthlink.net
To: Richard Woods <wpsnotebook@charter.net>; Hiker97@aol.com
Cc: PCT -L <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
Sent: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 14:31:04 -0700
Subject: RE: [pct-l] Bright tent colors


As Switchback so recently and wisely recommended - use spots of reflective
tape on your tent fly.  (We did this after not being able to find our tent
after a late return from peak-bagging and ended up bivouacing probably 200
yards from our tent...)

Christine "Ceanothus" Kudija
PCT partially '94

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[mailto:pct-l-bounces@mailman.backcountry.net]On Behalf Of Richard Woods
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 2:13 PM
To: Hiker97@aol.com
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Subject: [pct-l] Bright tent colors

Gotta say, there was a moment there on my last hike where I could have
used some color in my tent:
Dusk, out getting water and hurrying back to my stealth camp out in the
boulders/scrub without a flashlight. I realized my tent looked just
like another gray rock, and the only way I would find it was stumbling
over it if it got much darker. I found and followed my own tracks back
to camp, and my tent was not visible until I was maybe a hundred feet
away.

Mo Jo
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