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Posted by second gear on May 25, 2008 at 1:04:56 pm EDT
In reply to Funny now, not so funny then...Or, funny then too. posted by TJCeeJay on May 10, 2008 at 4:52:00 pm EDT

My fourteen year old son and some of his friends were going backpacking, and my fourteen year old nephew was to join them, but he had none of his own gear. We lent him a large internal frame pack along with sleeping pad,and a sleeping bag. The trip was four days and three night, nearly 40 miles long, up in the Alpine Wilderness area in Washington.

When we met back up, the boys regaled me with stories of how my nephew tried using multiple layers of clothes, sharing his cousin's sleeping bag (he is 6'4, my son 5'10), curling up in his mylar blanket, and so forth.

By now I was laughing, asking him why he didn't use his sleeping bag. He was exasperated and said that I had failed to include it. I really began laughing hard when I walked over to his pack, and unzipped the last compartment he didn't bother to open, the one that holds the sleeping bag. That's when all the other boys began laughing. Then we went and bought him a hamburger. :)

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