[philmont] Disposable Internal Frame Packs

Dan,

It may be a Yucca style of backpack that even I still have one of.........stored away as a museum piece of course....

Brian "Oh my back is sore" Martin
Lou, KY

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Preston <prestonar@bellsouth.net>
To: philmont List Member <philmont@troop47.com>
Sent: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 5:06 pm
Subject: [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??
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Dan Preston?
On Sep 7, 2007, at 2:40 PM, John LeBlanc wrote:?
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> <<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>>?
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> I just don't know what this generatior is becomming.? Carrying extra > buckles for their packs.? My oh my oh my!.?
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> If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times.? "Don't buy > those new fangled gadgets.? They are no good!"?
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> When are you going to start listening to me??
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> I'm gonna tell you ONE MORE TIME.?
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> 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.?
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> 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.?
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> 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.?
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> John LeBlanc?
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