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[echoplex]

Interview with Strayed about her backpack:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdq_LSwqauA

As far as modern external frames, the current Osprey Exos is as much an
external frame as the old Gregory pictured.


On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Ed Jarrett <edjarrett at msn.com> wrote:

> In the book, she could not even lift the pack initially, having to put it
> on sitting down and then pulled herself up on the radiator.  She eventually
> dropped some of her equipment, but never was very light.  One of the
> funniest parts of that story was her taking all of her brand new equipment
> out of their wrappings the night before she launched from Mohave and trying
> to cram it into her pack, ending up tying some of it onto the outside.  And
> then trying to get it on.  Quite comical.
>
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> > Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 11:04:41 -0700
> > From: sean.nordeen at gmail.com
> > To: pct-l at backcountry.net
> > Subject: [pct-l] (no subject)
> >
> > I want to know why no one is talking about the huge external frame
> > backpack in that trailer.  It looks like photos I've seen of our PCT
> > '77 alumni.  I've personally never seen a pack that big on the PCT.
> > I've seen them on other trails on people doing short distances though.
> > But its so rare to see an external frame anymore.  I have my doubts
> > about going over 1000 miles in one unless they were young and strong.
> > Especially doing so while watching most hikers with much smaller and
> > lighter packs constantly passing you.  That would have to be a huge
> > morale crusher.
> >
> > Did she really use a pack that big, or is this just a case of
> > Hollywood using it as a prop because they think a pack like that
> > matches the average person's perceptions about backpacking?  Which we
> > all know were mostly formed from 70's era movies and TV shows.  Tiny
> > packs just don't give that feeling of suffering that backpacking is
> > all about.  ;-)
> >
> > -Miner
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