>> #12 -- chopped kayaks make great pulks and are a blast on the downhills. >> You reminded me of an old dream of mine I've never gotten around to implementing. Several years ago, the person I was winter camping with in the BWCA got sick. Fortunately, she was able to ski out, but it got me to thinking that it might be handy -- maybe even lifesaving -- to have a pulk large enough to carry a sick or injured person. Now, if you had a pulk that large, there are other things you could do with it. My idea was to make a cover for it that would in effect turn it into a mobile bivy bed. The idea is to use the pulk to carry your camping gear into the wilderness. Then, when you make camp for the night, you take out most of the gear, lay out your Thermarest and sleeping bag in it, and turn the pulk into a bed. I even thought of making removable layers of insulation for the pulk cover for colder nights. Unfortunately, my current pulk is not quite long enough, and I have other projucts to work on -- such as finishing remodeling the kitchen. :-( Chuck Holst *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Nov 30 1999 - 13:26:24 PST
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