[at-l] Must be getting old, what with ensolite, Sveas and good woolens

[C7eca at aol.com]

'Pends when back in the day was.  
In the early seventies, we would go get some stuff called ensolite.   It 
was NASA designed as an insulator, about half inch thick, closed cell and  
thus waterproof,  A search on the word "ensolite" should come up with some  
on-line sources.
I woke up in the Rockies once, on my second camping trip ever, with my  
face half froze in some drool on an ensolite pad.  I heard what I took to  be a 
bear breathing almost next to me and while I was lying there trying to  
determine whose drool it was I noticed the tent had collapsed on us and I  
figured I was in a bad place.
Happily, there warn't no bear and the tent had collapsed (but not broken)  
from ten inches of unforecast snow and as I became more awake I realized the 
 bear breathing noise was Elmo whom I had known since third  grade.  We had 
actually never camped together in the same tent before and  who knew he 
snored?
 
We hiked up in shorts.  We had read up on mountain weather tho'  and had 
also packed wool clothes for inclement weather so we were set.
 
I still have a circular piece of that old piece of ensolite.  It  keeps the 
Svea, or now the alky stove, from disappearing in the  snow.  I think I 
learned about putting a stove on thin cardboard on the  snow on that trip too.  
 
 
 
  
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 From: amy at forinash.net
To: jplynch at crosslink.net
CC:  at-l at backcountry.net
Sent: 7/13/2009 4:58:26 P.M. Eastern Daylight  Time
Subj: Re: [at-l] NeoAir, was: Re: Must be getting old...



On Jul 13, 2009, at 4:54 PM, KGJ wrote:

> I've  been using a Thermarest of late, but I remember back in the day  
>  when I used just a plain pad of closed-cell foam.  Are those still   
> available?  I don't think it was even a brand name, just a sheet  of  
> foam I got somewhere.

Yeah, they still have  those.  I still have mine.  I've cut a few  
pieces off of  it over the years to use for one thing or another, but  
it's still  longer than I am.
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