ultralight, small torso backpacks

[lin galea]

To all the short back packers:
Maybe we need to do something about this.  I've tried a kid's pack, but
they're too small and they skimp on ammenities like shoulder pads, etc.  I'm
afraid we short people are a backwater - I've noticed over the years that
petite clothes keep getting longer.  I used to be able to wear them off the
rack and now they all need hemming.
I think it was Bob Spenger who mentioned the Golight cutom made pack.  Any
comments?
lin
Happy Birthday Rosina

>From: Rosina Lila <BlaroliaAOL.COM>
>Reply-To: Road to Santiago Pilgrimage <GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU>
>To: GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU
>Subject: Re: ultralight, small torso backpacks
>Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 22:29:44 EDT
>
>Hi Lin, and others,
>I, too, am five feet tall and weigh one hundred pounds. During my three
>times
>in the Camino I have never been able to find a backpack small enough, light
>enough, or comfortable enough.  I suppose that a good fit is a personal
>thing.
>That I am sixty years old, (sixty one tomorrow), may have something to do
>with it. Yet despite the fact that I neither exercise nor prepare for the
>physical undertaking  I haven't had any difficulties walking and walking
>the
>Camino, and climbing and climbing, and descending, and going on and on and
>on.  After the first day of walking my legs are quite sore...., but the
>next
>day, and the thirty days thereafter, everything is fine, except the
>backback.
>  That, for me,  is always  uncomfortable.
>Regards,
>Rosina


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