And not only will that Thermarest stay drier in your dry bag, having the drybag enclosing the Thermarest will give you added emergency secondary flotation. Similarly with things like pots and pans. A cookpot doesn't float, but in a drybag, it displaces air and gives you flotation. Shawn Ralph Diaz wrote: >- --Notice that Doug puts his Thermarest in a dry bag. Some paddlers >thinking that the pad is covered with waterproof fabric, don't give it >that extra measure of protection. Shawn W. Baker 0 46°53'N © 2000 ____©/______ 114°06'W ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^\ ,/ /~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^ baker_at_montana.com 0 http://www.geocities.com/shawnkayak/ *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Aug 15 2000 - 14:32:48 PDT
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