Outward Bound - 1980

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Outward Bound - 1980

Outward Bound - 1980

Outward Bound North Carolina sign - State of the art backpack of the era and what I lived out of for 23 days
silversummit
on Dec 28, 2008 3:25 pm
Image Type(s): Hiking
Image ID: 474997

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cascadetraveler

cascadetraveler - Dec 28, 2008 4:07 pm - Voted 10/10

Early Inspiration?

It looks like the beggining of a journey in the wide world of outdoor adventure.

Larry.

silversummit

silversummit - Dec 28, 2008 4:15 pm - Hasn't voted

It definitely is!

I'm preparing an album of scanned slides and thought I'd try a different format since they are a bit 'old!

Thanks for looking Larry!
Kathy

yatsek

yatsek - Dec 29, 2008 6:19 am - Voted 10/10

US Packs of the '80s

Had the external frames already gone?

silversummit

silversummit - Dec 29, 2008 8:30 am - Hasn't voted

Re: US Packs of the '80s

It was my first internal frame pack. I still use an external though. I have a very long waist and no externals (at any price) seem to fit me as well as my Kelty.

yatsek

yatsek - Dec 29, 2008 8:45 am - Voted 10/10

Re: US Packs of the '80s

What's actually wrong with the external frame? I keep scanning my memory and can't remember the drawbacks except that it was easy to scratch the car or tear something.

silversummit

silversummit - Dec 29, 2008 10:03 am - Hasn't voted

Re: US Packs of the '80s

The major problem I recall is that it is hard to bushwhack with in the rhododendron. They are also more difficult to pack in cars for a group. Climbers can't shimmy (sp.?) up those cracks as easily either.

yatsek

yatsek - Dec 29, 2008 10:37 am - Voted 10/10

Re: US Packs of the '80s

Thanks for refreshing my memory! BTW Do yo have any dwarf pine (Pinus mugo) above timberline in America? As to my Carpathians, there's some rhododendron but absolutely tiny, while you normally bushwack through Pinus mugo above the timberline.

silversummit

silversummit - Dec 29, 2008 12:12 pm - Hasn't voted

Re: US Packs of the '80s

We have pines of all types, depending upon where you go and our rhododendrons are massive in some areas, especially the mid-Atlantic and south. They grow these huge trunks and limbs that take saws to cut down and worst of all, they grow in weird directions all over the place!

yatsek

yatsek - Dec 30, 2008 5:43 am - Voted 10/10

Re: US Packs of the '80s

We only have such rhododendrons in a few arboreta. But you don't have Pinus mugo mugo:-), which - in bushwacking practice - can be similar. I remember taking a short-cut downslope through such bushes - I didn's set foot on the ground for a few dozen meters; wasn't carrying a pack though:)

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