Before becoming a hanger I strapped it to a tree. I like keeping things at a working height.
Even on scout outings I always carry my leader's pack with odds and ends in it. Once we are in an area where we will work on a few things I'll hang it somewhere.
Psalm 46:10
C. I've done this for thirty years, even when I was a Scout and used a tent.
I used a big old 'heavy' bungee cord for years, evolved to 550, and then eventually spliced eyeloops on the end of some Zing-It to attach it w/ a biner. I also try to find a tree about the right size to cinch the waist belt. I cover right before bed, and I've been through some torrential down pours with nothing more than the waist belt getting wet.
I'm light enough now that I've tried hanging it on the ridgeline, but I just don't like it...hard to break an old dog's habits!
Afoot and light-hearted, I take to the open road,
Healthy, free, the world before me,
The long brown path before me, leading wherever I choose.
I started using carabiners (not climbing rated) as my toggles and that has allowed me to just clip my pack on one of those. If it pours I'd have to go back to my old method; setting it on the ground under my tarp.
All you guys that strap the pack to trees, what do you do if it rains?
"We're the Sultans of Swing."
God bless! Brent
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.
-- William Shakespeare
What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other travel. Travel a thousand miles by train and you are a brute; pedal five hundred on a bicycle and you remain basically a bourgeois; paddle a hundred in a canoe and you are already a child of nature.
-- Pierre Elliott Trudeau
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