My Dana pack buckle served me well on four treks and all the prep hikes in
advance of each, but could not hold up in a two second strength test against
my new German Sheppard puppy two weeks before our trek this year. Bought a
substitute at REI on the way to Philmont. Warning any thing you touch and
leave your scent on is a target of opportunity for a puppy. 380psi did the
buckle in.
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From: philmont@troop47.com [mailto:philmont@troop47.com] On Behalf Of Mike
Wegenka
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 12:54 PM
To: philmont List Member
Subject: [philmont] Lemme get the record straight
----- Original Message ----
From: John LeBlanc <philmontjohn@yahoo.com>
To: Philmont List Member <Philmont@troop47.com>
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 9:48:36 AM
Subject: [Philmont] Lemme get the record straight
... My one complaint on ALL packs today is the convenient modern plastic
buckles and slide togetehr fasteners.
I hate those thingys. ...
I love them where I'm using them and they work properly which is most of the
time.
I hate them when you pull the pack out of the luggage compartment in the bus
and opne of them snaggs on anotehr pack and W_H-A-M-M-O an immediate
explosion of plastic shrapnel!
This very thing happened to ME when I was unloading MY pack from the bus
VERY CAREFULLY to prevent it from happening and it STILL happened....
John,
Not sure if this is standard practice for you but I have done the following
with success:
I always fold my pack's hip belt around backwards and clip it around the
lowest item on the pack, the sleeping bag, when in transit. Then cinch it
up so it is not loose and hugs the sleeping bag to minimize any chance to
getting caught on any "buckle breakers". Tuck the loose strap ends under
the belt as an additional precaution.
Learn this trick from my son a dozen years ago and am still using the
original buckle on a Kelty Super Tioga (yep, a 5500 CI external) and it has
"earned" at least ten 50 miler awards over the years (8 while I was
carrying it) I don't have any other packs, one pack will do for me as a
scout is Thrifty.
As for your comment:
...Like when I got snowed in at the deer lease last January by myself. No
electricity, no running water, just me adn the beautiful white countryside.
That was fun for this Cajun who rarely sees snow. A friend asked me "John,
you can't even fluch the toilet" to which I laughed. I said "Pete, the
septic tank isn't frozen, I just colledt about 2 gallons of water dripping
from the roof in a bucket and poof, flushed. Pete, I'm an Eagle Scout, I'll
be just fine, don't worry"...
How true! I have delayed in responding to this for a while as on 8/18/07 we
received 15" of rain overnight in southwestern WI three miles east of
Mississippi River back in our coulee. A 3' diameter by 40' long cottonwood
tree made short work of my driveway's 6' diameter by 30' long steel culvert
and the underground electrical power feed to my house. Had to "rough it"
for four days without power. Had similar comments from friends about "How
can you live w/o electricity? Your water pump doesn't even work" Same
game, I just put some buckets outside and also captured a lot in a lawn cart
as it rained for many days after the Saturday night deluge.
Had to cook on white gas but it sure was peaceful in the valley as my wife
had to stay in town with our son and there was limited traffic on the road
that is 3/4 mile away. Conserved the potable water still in the pump's
expansion tank and did not even need to break out the water purifier.
Couldn't get any of our vehicles out of the garage so I had to use the part
of "Being Physically Fit" and bike 9 miles each way to work for that week
until the culvert got reinstalled. I should be able to cull at least four
Scoutmaster's Minutes from that and other experiences related to the storm
and aftermath.
The most important thing you can teach a scout is to use that resource
that's between their two ears and to always learn more as you never know
when you might have to apply that info.
Mike Wegenka
Stoddard, WI
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