[philmont] Disposable Infernal Frame Packs

Funny to reflect on - when I was a boy the Yucca pack
 was the "supersized" backpack, compared to the "regular" sized
 B.S.A.backpack.

I only had the regular sized backpack and looked on
 enviously at thosewho had the Yucca.

Joe
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  I think the one Joe is referring to was called the Haversack. Where the Yucca pack had a pocket on the top flap secured with two leather straps with buckles, the haversack had a pocket under the flap with two gromets and a lace string to close it (well, sort of).
   
  The troop I was in had a new scout bus built before I got in it. A box like body that fit on the back of a 1947 Dodge 2-1/2 ton truck. Seatw were long and back to back facing the oustide which had a row of School bus windows in it. the seats were built especially for the then new Yucca pack to fit under them on the three and four week trips the troop took into New Mexico and Colorado and once to California.
   
  Those were arduous back then as the roads were not what they are today.
   
  Just think of that old bus gived me goose bumps thinking of all the good times and places it took me I'd have never gone had it not been for Scouts.
   
  The 47 Doidge got replaced by a 56 GMC and then a 74 GMC. The bus was retired in 1985 as it became harder adn harder to get National Tour permits for it and to get insurance.
   
  It was traded in for two 15 passenger banx which are know for their horrible accidents when driven by youth group volunteers adn not properly trained.
   
  Anyway, this story dates the yucca pack from around 1947 or I'd say post WWII.
   
  I completely wore mine out but still have it. That's the one I got in 1956 . About 6-7 years ago National supply made a piece of classic equipment each year adn my wife bought me a new yucca pack when I commented it was exactly like the one I wore out.
   
  All joking aside, that pack holds my "stuff" when I go on a day canoe trip on the creek where our old Scout camp used to be. And that bringd back a LOT of memories because it wsa there that I was introduced to the natural world through Scouting activities which opened a big door of adventure throughont my lifetime that Little League would have never taught me.
   
  John LeBlanc

       
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Received on Sun Sep 9 23:54:41 2007