Re: [pct-l] GoLite Pack question

[Stephen Martin <troubadour@pcthiker.com>]

I cannot comment on the GoLite pack. However, I thru-hiked the PCT last year
with a LWGear 1 pound pack which also didn't have a hip belt. When the pack
was full, my shoulders did take a beating. My initial solution was to wear a
fanny pack that the LWGear pack would rest upon, thus taking some weight
from my shoulders. But, I also found that when fording streams or making
difficult moves on snow, the pack would jump around on my back disturbing my
balance. I finally sewed on my own hip belt.

It wasn't a true hip belt, but rather a strap that went around my mid
section. It took some of the weight off of my shoulders and helped secure
the pack from flopping around.

Troubadour

on 12/11/99 10:30 PM, Brett Tucker at blisterfree@hotmail.com wrote:

> Tom and Karen,
> 
> Think of the GoLite pack as a day pack or a "book bag" used in school. It's
> very similar, though of a greater capacity than most, and of ultra
> lightweight components of the latest materials. Anything you can do to a day
> pack you can do to the GoLite. You could sew on a hip belt fairly easily.
> 

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