Re: [Paddlewise] Do your dry bags deflate air

Joan Spinner" <jspinner_at_peoplepc.com> wrote:

[re:  my admission that I pack all my dry on-shore clothing and sleeping bag
in one large drybag]

>> This is fine for the guys but for us gals it is a problem, like putting
all
the canned stuff in one bag. It is REALLY hard to carry that much weight,
even
over your shoulder. >>

Well, Joan, I could not carry all the canned stuff at once, either.  The
clothing sack is bulky, not heavy.  The cans fit wherever in the yak, and
only what is needed that night gets hauled out of the yak to camp.  On
longer trips (2 weeks), it is the fresh veggies/fruits that are cumbersome.
One trip I was "veggie man" and had about 80 lbs of goodies:  four heads of
cabbage, 20 lbs of oranges and 20 lbs of spuds, some zucchini, maybe 20 lbs
of apples, and the like.  Good to eat on day 10, but a nasty task hauling
out of bear-reach each night.

Someone else asked if I drybag my Thermarest -- nope.  If it gets wet, a
half hour open under the tarp makes it dry enough.  Usually, packing things
like the Thermarest "high" inside a bulkheaded compartment keeps them out of
the slosh down below, which never amounts to more than a cup max., so I have
a dry Thermarest almost all the time.

--
Dave Kruger
Astoria, OR

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