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Originally Posted by kindlekitten
most excellent! you use a backpack and not a duffle I assume?
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I guess you'd call it a large day pack, or I've seen it called a 'week-ender' too. Nothing fancy. Doesn't even have the Daisy chains or Snow shovel bungee cords I see on every kid's day pack today. Not a Molle strap to be seen.
Take a look at the goods. The only large item is the boots, and they don't go inside the packs. Everything else is quite small with the largest space taken up by the packages of freeze dried foods, and you know how small and light they are. A dozen of them take up about as much room as a dozen paperback books and weigh half as much. They form the bottom layer of the pack.
Every grouping other than food is in its own small stuff sack. Cooking and fire making, signaling, communications, shelter and first aid. Yo-yo. In fact, we really could use a slightly smaller pack, but this one gives us room to stuff in a sweater, gloves, and wool socks during the winter.
One of the whistles is fastened to the haul loop with a small locking biner for immediate access, and the flashlight is always at the top of the bag. Both whistles and the flashlights have lanyards.
Stitchawl