<div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4">Dear List, I second all of Schroomer's endorsement. Mr. Chrome Dome our first line of defense of precipitation, blistering sun, & wind, to a point. Use mine as a wind screen every time I light my stove. Dome to the wind, (two frame tips on ground) hold shaft/handle between yer toes. Cook is out of some wind too, enjoy a couple of minutes of stove heat as you crouch.I had several Golite umbrellas pre chrome dome. Rigged 'em with Jackstrap head band around shaft, sister Velcro stuck to bottom of handle, little brother Velcro receiver tab hung on chest strap. Strap to head, Velcro to chest strap, two hands on T-poles.....Took a deep bow with umbrella rigged up that way for Dimitri Coupounas (Mr. Golite) @ Trail Days AT '06, but Golite wasn't buying into the concept,<i> and,</i> as hikers know, when walking switchbacks, making a turn into or away from sun and wind, you need to change the position of your shade/shield pretty often. I now favor one hand on pole, other on umbrella. A hiker who demonstrated his hands-free carry @ ADZPCTKO in '07, simply sliced a hole in the top of his pack, and stabbed the Chrome Dome home. Used my new C.D. on PCT for day beacon for helicopter to locate my position and evacuate my sorry self when knee failed. Hiker JH Found told me last summer that my old C.D.('07) was looking too shabby (ain't much chrome left on it, silicone sealer snerds, dental floss ties) for hiking on the JMT, ( a <i>gentleman's</i> trial) so I got a brand new one heading to Waterton this July. Top of head, top of pack, dry, shaded. Way cooler, no hat under blazing under Mr. Chrome Dome. Peace and Health, Muleskinner (and Woodrose)</font></div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Scott Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:baidarker@gmail.com" target="_blank">baidarker@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I used my Chrome Dome a lot more than the rain pants last year. I used it in the sun of NM and whenever it rained. At one point just north of Rocky Mtn NP we got hit by a lightening storm up high, but got into a copse of trees and with the several umbrellas we had, produced an immediate shelter for 4 of us to hunker down under until it blew over. We had a picnic in the impromptu shelter. <div>
<br></div><div>On trail, it provided enough protection in all but the strongest blows to allow me to keep my wet weather jacket unzipped or partially zipped and therefore much less clammy inside. I could also keep shooting pictures in the rain. Sometimes cliffs and forests are at their most beautiful in a mist. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I hook it over my pack and it keeps the top half of me and the pack pretty dry and that's a comfortable way to hike for me. By synching my chest strap across the shaft, I very rarely need to hold onto it, and can usually use both of my hiking poles while the umbrella is up. </div>
<div><br></div><div>But each to his own. It is more weight, and if it's not your thing, or in a particularly dry year, it could be a weight carried for naught. But I like them.</div><div><br></div><div>Shroomer<br>
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