---------- > From: Dave Kruger <dkruger_at_pacifier.com> > Mark H. Hunt wrote: > > > > Well, it sounds as if several inner layers of bubble wrap might > > privide that non-compressible dry suit insulation. I can supply a > > make-your-own bubble wrap dry suit insulation kit for around $450.00 if > > anyone wants to try it..... > > Tongue-in-cheek, Mark's suggestion might be, but he may have hit on a way > to achieve a FLEXIBLE noncompressible insulation material. --snip-- In the mid-70s I came across a book promoting winter camping using closed cell foam. The author went into great detail as to how to cut and tape pieces of ensolite together to make a winter suit, and then went on to explain that it was imperative not to perspire. He recommended that one should put on the suit and then sit quietly in the snow, avoiding all motion. I thought that this was too dull an activity to become popular, but then about fifteen years later I came across a study which found that sitting was the most popular form of recreation -- not sitting while talking, or reading, or watching the TV -- just sitting. It was then that I realized that the author of the winter camping book was a man ahead of his time. On related notes, lately there has been a thread on the BWCA/Quetico list concerning whether or not one should tote other parties' packs on portages -- the consensus seems to be no. Just a few minutes ago I received an e-mail from a friend saying that he and his partner will be out skiing tonight, even though the temperature will be -30 less an additional wind chill warning, and that I should not be surprised to come across them frozen into a snow drift like popsicles. Putting all this together, I have come to the conclusion that snowbank sitting will become a popular winter recreational activity as we end the millenium (just as flag pole sitting was a popular summer activity in the 30s), and I would urge all PaddleWise readers to respect the wishes of those whom they might come across laying about in drifts. Please don't try to warm them up or feed them. Just let them commune with nature. Richard Culpeper Ring-ding-ding-ringa-ringa-ding-ding www.geocities.com/~culpeper > *************************************************************************** > PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List > Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net > Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net > Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ > *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Jan 06 1999 - 13:37:23 PST
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