<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 6/3/2002 1:01:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Spirit444aAOL.COM writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">I am packing a light weight, compact, down sleeping bag on the recommendation of a fellow pilgram. He said that it gets cold in the mountains(he was there in July/Aug. 2000) and that there were no blankets available.</BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
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Don't take a sleeping bag. A sleep sack will do fine. Many refugios DO provide blankets. I go crazy when people provide wrong information. Howard Mendes, NYC</FONT></HTML>