[pct-l] New Hiking Standard

[wayneskraft at comcast.net (Wayne Kraft)]

A thought that occurs to me some times when I bed down in my grey  
Hennessy Hammock is: what if I stroke out or something during the  
night?  If they come looking for me I'm nearly invisible (and the  
period key is not working on my keyboard all of a sudden!) I have  
hiked away from my camp a short way and looked back at it to discover  
that I can hardly locate it and I know its there!  Reversible gear  
would be nice!  Bright on one side, dark on the other!  Pardon my  
hysterical punctuation!  I'm really not excited, it's just the keyboard!

Wayne Kraft!  Period!


On Dec 29, 2005, at 11:59 AM, yogi wrote:

> Regarding tent colors:  Remember when Sierra Designs changed their  
> tent color from bright blue to kind of a cloudy green?  Someone  
> told me that SD did research and found that bears attack brightly- 
> colored tents more than tents that blend into the trees.  Not sure  
> if this was a rumor or not, but that's what I remember hearing.
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>   I guess if it's true, I'm screwed in my bright orange MSR Hubba.
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>   Regarding clothing colors:  Bright colors are happy colors!  I  
> think there is too much tan, black, khaki, green in hiking  
> clothing.  I certainly value function over color in hiking gear,  
> but when I have the choice to wear happy colors vs gloomy colors,  
> I'll pick the happy colors every time.
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>   yogi
>   www.pcthandbook.com
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> Paul Magnanti <pmags@yahoo.com> wrote:  Looking at most of hiking  
> gear, seems I like subdued
> colors as well. Greens, browns and blacks. For three
> season hiking, I tend to wear a long sleeve beige
> shirt with black shorts. My pack is black. My hat is
> khaki.
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> Guess I like the sudued colors as well.
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