[pct-l] Super-Secrets - Hiking Poles serving extra duty . . .

[jdrows at comcast.net (JDRows)]

Hi Steel-Eye
I use the same internal frame method with my GG Virga and Golite Jam as 
well.  In addition I bring a luxury item: a 2.5-oz inflatable pillow. 
Extra clothing in a stuff sack used to work, but I found over time the 
lumps reduced the quality of my sleep. 

Thus I do have something that, once inflated, supports me in "that area" 
which regrettably seems to get more boney every year.  I was hoping for 
something that didn't require me to have to sit cross-legged and stiffen 
up in the legs during meal preparation, eating and/or reading (luxury #2 
- reading about someone else's journey during my own, always seems to 
enhance the experience for me).

My initial thought was bringing a piece of extra-strong (shock-cord ??) 
tubing (stored in the Tarp-Tent sack) the length of my hiking poles 
(once fully retracted), and by bringing the  3-"legs" together and 
splaying them out, each upper section would fit (I use hiking pole 
rubber tips) into a pre-sown pocket on the underside of strong (but 
light) fabric fitted to my "shape".  The tubing would need to have a 
rounded surface that could screw onto it so that the end didn't end up 
poking a hole through the fabric pocket into which that "leg" would be 
seated. 

Some locking strap or long strip of 2-sided Velcro would hold the 
3-"legs" together.

So even tho' I've described a general design, I hoped someone else had 
taken something similar to a more workable level and I wouldn't have to 
"reinvent the wheel." 

When I do end up with something workable and at a reasonable weight, 
I'll provide pictures and a schematic that others may access through the 
photos section.

Thanks
JD




Sharon & Chuck Chelin wrote:

>Good evening, JD,
>
>I have a 9.0" x 11.0" scrap of blue foam left over from a damaged sleeping
>pad that I sometimes keep flat in the rear mesh pocket of my Breeze.  It
>weighs about 20 gr. (0.70 oz.).  If I happen to be carrying it in the rain
>or snow it is handy to pull out for sitting.  I also carry the sleeping pad
>folded inside the back of the Breeze, and it is really soft for sitting, but
>I won't pull it out unless I intend to dump out most of the pack.
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>Steel-Eye
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>From: "JDRows" <jdrows@comcast.net>
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>Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 5:49 PM
>Subject: Re: [pct-l] Super-Secrets - Hiking Poles serving extra duty . . .
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>>On another group (hopefully this hasn't been asked yet), a question went
>>out about using 2-collapsible poles as 2 of the three legs for a camp
>>stool with a pre-sown piece of durable fabric as the seat and ________
>>???? for the 3rd leg.
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>>Do the ever resourceful Switchback and others have any home-made
>>suggestions for keeping one's, as it's occasionally referred to: where
>>the back changes name, off the  cold, wet, rocky ground?
>>JD
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