[philmont] Disposable Internal Frame Packs

I don't know what kind of external pack you use, John, but it must be
ancient if it doesn't have a hip belt with a buckle. Are you still
using that canvas pack with the lashed -together wood frame?

Dan Preston
On Sep 7, 2007, at 2:40 PM, John LeBlanc wrote:

>  
> <<Putting the waist belt around the back of the pack and then
> connecting the buckle is the best way to prevent broken buckles. I've
> always made the guys carry a spare buckle, male and female. They are
> cheap, weigh nothing and somehow that prevents buckles from breaking -
> some sort of Murphy's Law.  If you carry an internal frame pack you
> NEED to take extra buckles>>
>  
> **********************************************************************
> I just don't know what this generatior is becomming.  Carrying extra
> buckles for their packs.  My oh my oh my!.
>  
> If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times.  "Don't buy
> those new fangled gadgets.  They are no good!"
>  
> When are you going to start listening to me?
>  
> I'm gonna tell you ONE MORE TIME.
>  
> Stop buying those marketing wizardry toys called internal frame packs
> and buy you ONE real man's pack with an external frame and be done
> with it for the rest of your life.
>  
> I'll say it again.  If you used external frame packs you'd be done
> with the repairs and fiddleing and fizing your pack on the trail.
>  
> Repeat after me  I-N-T-E-R-N-A-L F-R-A-M-E  P-A-C-K-S are N-O  G-O-O-D.
>  
> John LeBlanc

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Received on Fri Sep 7 15:17:25 2007