Revealing Rucksack - a bit of fun!

[Sparklebug]

Originally Posted by tcvarlh

For three years now I have resisted the urge to go out and get the 100 litre rucksac I KNOW I need, I am weakening, I feel it, the damned thing calls to me every time I walk past the store it is temporarily residing in. Etc.
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Well TC if it makes you feel any better, when I brought mine I spent well over 1 hour in Gaynor Sports, up and down the row of possible purchases. On and off, on and off again, not long enough in the back (I'm 6') zip, zip, fiddle, adjust, wiggle, will it hurt when it's heavy? So off assistant goes and brings back two cases of outdoor boules (very heavy.) Insert into said bags, much pacing about, adjust, waist staps, back straps, back adjust. Rain cover fiddle....and so on...you get the pic. So I plumped for my Lowe Alpine as I felt the staff had got to the point they thought I was nuts (rightly so!). I stuffed my old sack inside, along with a new pair of Keens etc. and hiked the 8 miles back to camp. 1 mile in found that the frame on the back sat just where my scapula's are and it was agony as it rubbed all the way home and no amount of adjusting would sort it. Hated it ever since but determined to keep fiddling and adjusting. So moral of the story is...DO NOT BE RUSHED.... or have any sticky out bones surgically removed before purchase!

[ChrisJB]

Originally Posted by Sparklebug

LOVE this idea! I will now look out for them on my travels around the Calder Valley.......I have heard of people doing the same in cities with playing cards, but never in the countryside. MMMnnnn.....what could I leave as my calling card...other than footprints of course going to have to give this some thought......

The only one I have left in your neck of the woods was atop the trig-point on Hoof Stones Height (above Kebs), about two months ago. This year I've also left ones on top of Ben More (Mull), Red Screes (Lake District), Criffell (Dumfries and Galloway) and Hedgehope Hill (Cheviots).
I need a trip to the seaside soon though as I'm running out of shells.

C.J.B

[tcvarlh]

Originally Posted by Sparklebug

Well TC if it makes you feel any better, when I brought mine I spent well over 1 hour in Gaynor Sports, up and down the row of possible purchases. On and off, on and off again, not long enough in the back (I'm 6') zip, zip, fiddle, adjust, wiggle, will it hurt when it's heavy? So off assistant goes and brings back two cases of outdoor boules (very heavy.) Insert into said bags, much pacing about, adjust, waist staps, back straps, back adjust. Rain cover fiddle....and so on...you get the pic. So I plumped for my Lowe Alpine as I felt the staff had got to the point they thought I was nuts (rightly so!). I stuffed my old sack inside, along with a new pair of Keens etc. and hiked the 8 miles back to camp. 1 mile in found that the frame on the back sat just where my scapula's are and it was agony as it rubbed all the way home and no amount of adjusting would sort it. Hated it ever since but determined to keep fiddling and adjusting. So moral of the story is...DO NOT BE RUSHED.... or have any sticky out bones surgically removed before purchase!

Exactly so, these things cannot be rushed - Mary in haste repent at leisure- ne'er a truer word said, you are closer to yer rucksac than yer spouse, and if one of 'em rubs then there are such things as divorce courts but a rucksac that abrades will break more than yer heart!
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[tcvarlh]

Originally Posted by Cowgirl

You need therapy mate.

'course I need therapy, I'm a WABber, self explanatory!
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[Sparklebug]

Originally Posted by tcvarlh

'course I need therapy, I'm a WABber, self explanatory!
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I thought WABing IS therapy for most of us!? It is for me, nothing better for beating the blues, than striding out with a full rucksack across the moors to see what I can see................

[Bumderess]

This is a brilliant thread!

I've just started doing some hill walking and my rucksack seems to be overpacked but looking at these posts i seem to be missing several things.....!!