Design of pack

[Delphia Dirks]

MaryAnn... I don't know where you are (geographically), but I looked at
Hudson (?) sportshop here in Washington DC-- It is a nationwide chain, I'm
sure.   That weight-on-on-the-hips design is all they showed/recommended---
The one I liked best (even though IT looked big to me) weighed  o/a 2.5
pounds.

delphia

> From: MaryAnn May <mamayaNVINET.COM>
> Reply-To: Road to Santiago Pilgrimage <GOCAMINOapete.uri.edu>
> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 17:48:03 -0700
> To: GOCAMINOapete.uri.edu
> Subject: Design of pack
>
> Hello veteran hikers.  My problem in recent years are my fragile shoulders.
> Surgeries and therapy keep them working but I'm looking for a backpack that
> might be designed to put weight on the hips, with the shoulder straps there
> only to maintain the balance of the pack. Any ideas?
>
> And I second the motion of carry very little!
> Two items I camp with that I find are very light and compact and extremely
> useful:  Sea sponge (holds amazing amount of water for sponge baths and
> compresses down to nothing) and a chamois (used as a bath towel, never gets
> sour, dries in a snap, rolls up into a cigar size wad). Of course, they are
> both animal "products"  and that has been an obstacle  for my friends who are
> vegans. But I swear by them!