[Philmont] I rest my case Keith!!!!!

This summer the Alps mountaineering Cascade model's belt was too big for my son and neither of the 2 training treks revealed that fact (guess we did not give him enough weight before Philmont).
When our Ranger (Buddy Davis --- great Ranger !!!!!) left I asked him to radio into Logistics and ask them to send a small belted rental pack to Dan Beard ( we were having an injured member joining us there). Logistics sent out a Kelty external frame with a smallbelt which was quite a deal better until the last day when we (the Scout or the adult leaders 'helping' him ) were able to break the bottom of the frame.
 
Both External and internal frames have merits and this discussion is taking on one of those near religious jihad to the death tones --- Cut it out !!!!!
 
A Scout (and Scout) is courteous!!!!!
 
YiS
Sam Taylor ASM T89, Austin, TX
701-H1 "I once was a bear ......"

>>> On 17-Aug-07 at 7:56 AM, in message <MDAEMON-F200708170757.AA5716183pd50004056533@troop47.com>, "Keith Hooks" <keithhooks@msn.com> wrote:

> I've never seen an external frame pack that the frame popped out.
>Have any of you?

Don't want to get into a ****ing contest with anyone, but I've seen problems
on both externals and internals. In 2005 we had to rent a Philmont pack
when a crew member's external pack failed in base camp. Get whatever works
for you and makes you happy.

Keith
ASM, T-252
Kilgore, TX

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Received on Fri Aug 17 08:16:15 2007