{"id":525,"date":"2006-06-19T10:01:23","date_gmt":"2006-06-19T15:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=525"},"modified":"2006-06-19T10:01:23","modified_gmt":"2006-06-19T15:01:23","slug":"caution-more-geer-geekery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/06\/19\/caution-more-geer-geekery\/","title":{"rendered":"Caution: more geer geekery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last time I went backpacking, I poked around for an hour looking for a campsite
\nthat might have ground soft enough to get a good night’s sleep upon. Such places
\nwere available, but only by trudging throug hip-deep, tick-infested grass. Why
\nnot just camp out on a developed site? Well, I’m still experimenting with the
\nidea of keeping pack weight to an absolute minimum; one way to do that is to
\nleave your comfy Thermarest at home and use a super-light "pad" that
\ndoes a fine job of insulating one’s body from the cold, hard ground, but provides
\nnext to zero actual padding. Camp on soft grass or on a bed of pine needles,
\nthe theory goes, and you can get by with a far lighter pad. <\/p>\n

If you can’t find such a spot, you’re in for a bumpy night. After one too many
\nsuch nights I decided I needed some air between my hips, shoulders and the ground.
\nI knew from reading Andy Howell’s
\nblog<\/a> that he has a TorsoLite<\/a>
\npad from Bozeman Mountain Works. I decided to try one on for size myself. <\/p>\n

\n<\/p>\n

The TorsoLite weighs a mere 10 ounces, only two more than my foam pad and 10
\nless than my full-length Thermarest ProLite3. It’s dramatically smaller, providing
\npadding only to the shoulders and fanny. I’ve slept on the ground enough times
\nto know these are the only places that really need the padding anyway. <\/p>\n

So far it passes the "how does it feel on the kitchen floor" test;
\nthe tryout on a forest floor comes this weekend at Tahoe National Forest. <\/p>\n

TorsoLite
\nreviews at Backpackgeartest.org.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last time I went backpacking, I poked around for an hour looking for a campsite that might have ground soft enough to get a good night’s sleep upon. Such places were available, but only by trudging throug hip-deep, tick-infested grass.…<\/p>\n

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