GG 1/4" Thinlight Wide - how do you carry this thing???

**DawgU** · 10-05-2007, 21:47

Benn trying out the pad in the backyard - love it! Eliminates the need for the under quilt in mild temps, and I'm sure it will let me go pretty low when added to the UQ. Finally going into the woods this week, and I tried to fit in in my pack. Let's just say it fills my pack to the brim with nothing else in it (Gregory G). How do y'all carry this thing???

I assume it probably ends up on the outside of your pack. Any tricks to keeping it dry?

**nogods** · 10-06-2007, 09:17

I don't have that pad, but I've always carried my tent and pads outside my pack - attached to the top and covered with a plastic bag. Now that I have a hammock and an internal frame pack I'll probably just have the pad tied to the outside in a plastic bag. It doesn't look like anything you'll ever see on the cover of Backpacker magazine, but it works. And if you use one of those lawn size bags, it can double as a pack cover while in camp. The regular rain cover for my pack is not wide enough to fit over the pack a wide pad.

**headchange4u** · 10-06-2007, 10:01

I also carry it on the outside of my pack. It get's covered with my pack cover or poncho when it's raining so biggie on getting wet. Plus I think the Evazote is a closed cell foam design so it shouldn't absorb water.

**gunn parker** · 10-07-2007, 07:01

I have the same problem but when I attached the pad to the outside of my pack, the bush we hiked through was so thick and scratchy that the pad ended up with all these chunks taken out of it.

**Boose** · 10-07-2007, 20:29

I carry the Wal-Mart convoluted blue pad rolled on the outside of my pack, and when the outside of the pad has gotten wet, I've put my trash-bag-pack-liner over it. If you're losing chunks while bushwhacking, perhaps a homemade silnylon bag or the appropriate size of Thermarest stuff sack would work.

**Nightwalker** · 10-07-2007, 21:42

Originally Posted by gunn parker

I have the same problem but when I attached the pad to the outside of my pack, the bush we hiked through was so thick and scratchy that the pad ended up with all these chunks taken out of it.

Try carrying it vertical instead of horizontal. I usually carry it semi-folded on the inside, near the bottom. It basically just raises the load a little.

**Miguel** · 10-07-2007, 21:56

Outside...vertically right in the center of the pack.

BTW...how cold was it when you used your 1/4" pad and did you stay warm?

Miguel

**gunn parker** · 10-08-2007, 02:05

Originally Posted by Nightwalker

Try carrying it vertical instead of horizontal. I usually carry it semi-folded on the inside, near the bottom. It basically just raises the load a little.

I had it set up like this, my pack is the one on the right with the blue pad.