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Pack advice 27-Jul-2008 At 11:51:23 PM brendan

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On 26/07/2008 Capt_mulch wrote:
>>Capt_Mulch raves about his Osprey pack but he still belays with a figure
>>8 so I'll take his advice with a grain of salt.
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>Pah! Wally Wombat you young whippersnapper!! I do own one of them sticky
>plate things:
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>but they're a little bit complicated for me. To let you all know, I have
>been through the same epiphany as Wallwombat aka Psycho Hippy:
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>(I just love seeing photos of people climbing Everest with this same model
>of pack - don't you worry, I've seen them...)
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>For some reason when I look at the old Lowe, I don't think about the pain,
>I think about the women associated with it. Ahhh, those European trips
>when I had no responsibility and aids was purely something weird climbers
>did.
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> Then I realised I needed a new pack (though there is nothing wrong with
>the old one) and I did some investigating. I wanted a light weight, big
>pack, that was really comfortable. Check out the harness on the Osprey:
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>The hip belt is one of those isoformy thingys that you can get heated
>and custom flitted in the shop, but if you wear it enough it does the same
>thing. I can carry 20 kilos with this thing and it feels like a day pack.
>Hence the ability to carry a full pack plus two dozen beers up the track
>to Balor Hut in the Bungles for WW and Widewetandslippery before they suffered
>from Long Time Since Last Beer Edema (LTSLBE - Keith Bell has assured me
>that this is a quite common affliction at the high altitudes of the Bungles).
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>You guys will be pleased to know that I now have a nice rack of some of
>them new fangled protection devices:
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>Time to get some tangs in them (new secret quarry discovered in Canberra
>- time to bash some good quality BD steel)
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>I've finally got the Canberra climbers winter shed haven organised:
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>You don't even need a beer fridge - just leave the beer outside the door.
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i see some shiny new ice gear in this photo nick, unfortunatly i think by the time i can climb the ice will be gone