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[QUOTE="Deleted member 43985, post: 545835"] I hope you'll like it, [USER=73432]@LukeK[/USER] but I'll impart just one more piece of (unsolicited) advice... wait for the windiest day back home before you leave for Spain and go outside with your pack on and practice putting and taking off the poncho. I made the mistake of not doing this before standing in SJPDP. This is an snippet from my blog about that fateful day... "[I]My first moments in St Jean Pied-de-Port quickly went from inspired to slapstick. I exited the taxi only to have the skies open up with the first of many downpours and/or snow storms over the next 5 weeks. No problem, I’ve got this. I dug into my backpack and brought out a shiny new Sea-to-Summit backpackers poncho, the kind designed to envelope the pack and the packer in one neat and tidy waterproof package. As luck would have it, I didn’t try this poncho out at home in the wind and rain. Nope, just in a dry, windless store with two sales clerks helping me put it on. Now, on my own in Hurricane James, in front of a cute old Basque couple in their car having lunch, I began the ‘Dance of the Poncho’. Visualize a pudgy, middle-aged Canadian Peregrino wearing a 50L backpack in a wind stiff enough to bring the rain down sideways trying to finesse a billowing poncho over his head and then further dislocating both shoulders in a vain attempt to slide the poncho further down over his backpack while delicately balancing his trekking poles with an unoccupied hip. At one point during the dance I looked over at my Basque couple and saw a piece of Jamón Serrano (just fancy words for Spanish ham, pfffft) snort out of the man’s nose as he spasmed with laughter at my plight. She, the gentler and kinder of the two, was much more restrained, however, still needed to wipe the tears of laughter our of her eyes. An eternity (4 minutes if precision is warranted) later, on stiff legs, I went off in search of my recently lost dignity, poncho firmly planted in the bottom of my pack.[/I]" [/QUOTE]
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