Re: [pct-l] RE: pct-l-digest V1 #614

[Rebecca Williams <rebeccaw@ix.netcom.com>]

I plan on buying some. I'm not sure what kind yet ...
check out dupont's web site ...
http://www.dupont.com/
tyvek protective covers:
http://www.dupont.com/Tyvek/covers/
dupont protective apparel (including tyvek)
http://www.dupont.com/Tyvek/protective-apparel/phome.htm

I called 1-800-44-TYVEK to ask for where I could get info about tyvek
& where I could purchase it ... they wanted to know what I wanted it for ..
when I said outdoor stuff & camping/backpacking ... to use as a ground sheet
they gave me the number for a Paper Products company to call ... that company
in
turn sent me samples & pricing.

If I got a roll I'd be happy to split it & the cost with some others. ...
provided it's easy enough for us to send it to each other etc.

-Rebecca



Bill Sargent wrote:

> I personally find resting in the middle of the trail without regard for
> any other travelers, making them step over or around you selfish and
> arrogant.  My typical response to that behavior is to kick dirt or step
> on the obstructor.
>
> On a lighter note, I am looking for some Tyvek to use a ground cloth,
> optimally the kind used as a vapor barrier on houses.  It is unavailable
> in my part of the country, does anyone out there have access to it?  I
> need about 75-100 sq. feet.  Thanks.
>
> Bill Sargent
> JMT 98
>
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> Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 1998 10:03 PM
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> Subject: pct-l-digest V1 #614
>
> pct-l-digest       Wednesday, November 18 1998       Volume 01 : Number
> 614
>
> In this issue:
>
>     Re: [pct-l] BackPacks
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 18:02:45 -0800 (PST)
> From: Jeffrey Olson <jjolson@u.washington.edu>
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] BackPacks
>
> I haven't followed this thread, but noticed someone recommended a Kelty.
> In
> my humble opinion, the most comfortable external frame pack is the
> Jansport
> D-3 or D-5 series, and its successor, whatever that number may be.
> Prior to
> this summer I used a D-3 for my PCT hiking (now a jack wolfskin internal
> frame weighing two and a half pounds).  The hip belt can't be beat.
>
> A short story.  while hiking in the Indian heaven wilderness in
> washington
> I'd stopped for lunch and both the mosquitos and black flies were having
> at
> me.  I lay down across the trail and threw my 6' x 8' tarp across my
> body
> and ate my lunch, parmesian cheese and pilot crackers.  I dosed my face
> and
> hands with DEET and ate and read my novel, comfortable and luxuriating
> in my
> spot, albeit a bit warm in the 80 degree temps.  Along the trail came a
> couple who stopped and marvelled at my ingenuity.  Pack for a pillow,
> book
> in hand, crackers and cheese and water at hand, and no where for them to
> go
> but over me.  I wasn't about to move as I was about done eating and was
> getting close to the nap place I liked to go after lunch.
>
> We talked for a while about being on the trail, me for my 30 days or so,
> them for 10.  WE started talking about our packs, all were Jansport D
> series.  I said how I wouldn't hike with anything else it was so
> comfortable.  The woman shared how she'd had back surgery a couple years
> ago
> and it was the only pack she could wear because of how the hip arms
> distributed weight better than the normal backband.  Her husband said
> that
> he had chronic lower back pain. I commiserated and we all extolled the
> virtues of our packs, how comfortable they were, how much we liked them,
> etc.  that's the empirical support I offer for Jansport...
>
> After a couple minutes of talking it became apparent the flies and
> skeeters
> were getting to them, and still I didn't move.  they ended up stepping
> gently over me as I lay under my blue tarp, and I watched them quickstep
> away from me and the bugs.  I lay back and marvelled how wonderful it
> was to
> be alive, stared at the treetops and darting birds for a while before
> falling asleep, in languid ecstacy...
>
> Jeffrey Olson
> Seattle, WA, where it's getting colder and rainier and darker and now
> the
> freeways are the countries worst!!!
>
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