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Cover the banket if feel cold in bed.As I was pondering about non-COVID things, I wondered what kind of multitasking master list we could come up with for the lowly poncho.
Your turn
- A shelter lean-to. (A bit of cord and trekking poles make it even more independent in setting up.)
- A sun shelter, it can be rigged up to provide you shade in hot climates.
- Ground cloth: Under a tent, or a survival shelter, a poncho can protect you from the damp ground. If you are in a cold damp climate, this can help you stay warm.
- Wind Break: While a poncho without the liner does not have much insulating qualities, you will be warmer if you wrap up in the poncho in windy weather, this will help protect you from wind chill.
- Privacy -- great emergency privacy screen when needing to do some 'elimination' business and natural coverage of bushes or tall grass is scarce. It also works when needing to change pants or shorts.
- Sit pad. When taking a break and sitting surfaces are damp.
- Mattress cover.
- Can make an emergency backpack or carryall.
- Windshell to add a bit of extra warmth to layers. Great for cool, early mornings when you need something that can be quickly removed after you ave warmed up from walking.
Hmmm, nice idea, but has it been "tried and true"?As a kite.
Mobile sweat lodge (who hasn't worn a poncho and been wetter on the inside than the out?
Love, love, love this. So freaking true.
Dave did say Fun With a Poncho.Rick, you can be so creatively hilarious!
All stuff I learned as a Boy ScoutAs I was pondering about non-COVID things, I wondered what kind of multitasking master list we could come up with for the lowly poncho.
Your turn
- A shelter lean-to. (A bit of cord and trekking poles make it even more independent in setting up.)
- A sun shelter, it can be rigged up to provide you shade in hot climates.
- Ground cloth: Under a tent, or a survival shelter, a poncho can protect you from the damp ground. If you are in a cold damp climate, this can help you stay warm.
- Wind Break: While a poncho without the liner does not have much insulating qualities, you will be warmer if you wrap up in the poncho in windy weather, this will help protect you from wind chill.
- Privacy -- great emergency privacy screen when needing to do some 'elimination' business and natural coverage of bushes or tall grass is scarce. It also works when needing to change pants or shorts.
- Sit pad. When taking a break and sitting surfaces are damp.
- Mattress cover.
- Can make an emergency backpack or carryall.
- Windshell to add a bit of extra warmth to layers. Great for cool, early mornings when you need something that can be quickly removed after you have warmed up from walking.
While using it this "main" way, one rainy and windy day, my poncho nearly turned into a sort of kite, trying to lift me right up and off.... Sadly, this did not turn out to become a free ride.Did you purposely leave out it’s main use/ I would have thought it’s primary use ?
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While using it this "main" way, one rainy and windy day, my poncho nearly turned into a sort of kite, trying to lift me right up and off.... Sadly, this did not turn out to become a free ride.
I'm in the rain jacket camp, so can offer no suggestions from experience. But I have been thinking of making myself a sort of short cape to replace the rucksack cover and deal with the rain down the back issue. The pattern would be an egg shape with a face hole near one end. If laid flat, it would just about work as a the top half of a bivvi bag provided I kept my knees bent..............
Or perhaps not.
I've used a piece of bungee type cord as a belt for the poncho which works well.That can be a painFortunately, there are techniques to keep such things from happening.
I have used both, and find they each have their own good and not so good features. Too bad there is not a perfect miracle rain covering. I suppose the Altus combines the two quite well...most people who own one seem to really like them.When I did use rain jackets, I never used a backpack cover during rain. I had a waterproof liner inside the packbag, like a garbage compactor bag, and also used lightweight waterproof stuff sacks to contain sleeping gear and clothing. I didn't worry about the backpack getting wet.
As to the potential of water down the neck, a hat with a broad brim in back will help divert water.
One of the reasons that I decided to start using ponchos, after decades of using rain jackets while backpacking, is that I can quickly pull it out of the side pocket of my backpack and slip it on over my backpack. I do not even have to stop. I usually do pause for the ten seconds it takes to put on, though, because I am a bit clumsyI do not need to take my backpack off, put on a rain jacket, put the backpack back on.
This is a huge factor for me when it rains. And as is often the case, when it rains off and on during the walk. Periodic sprinkles and showers can eat up a lot of time and energy with a rain jacket IF you take it off and put it on based on the immediate conditions.
With a poncho, I can respond to conditions within seconds. I can whip off the poncho as soon as the rain has slowed or stopped, and not question "should I wait to see if it starts back up?" Keeps condensation way down.
Looks like a free ride to me!
Snorer proder! Love it! Of course, I never snore -- it's unladlylike and always someone else!I like this game . . . Hiking Poles
- tent/tarp pole
- washing line across window frame
- cat hole digging stick
- makeshift triangular pack frame
- fencing foil
- drum major mace
- snorer prodder
- leg splint
So true!Snorer proder! Love it! Of course, I never snore -- it's unladlylike and always someone else!
Perfect. Thanks!
As I was pondering about non-COVID things, I wondered what kind of multitasking master list we could come up with for the lowly poncho.
Your turn
- A shelter lean-to. (A bit of cord and trekking poles make it even more independent in setting up.)
- A sun shelter, it can be rigged up to provide you shade in hot climates.
- Ground cloth: Under a tent, or a survival shelter, a poncho can protect you from the damp ground. If you are in a cold damp climate, this can help you stay warm.
- Wind Break: While a poncho without the liner does not have much insulating qualities, you will be warmer if you wrap up in the poncho in windy weather, this will help protect you from wind chill.
- Privacy -- great emergency privacy screen when needing to do some 'elimination' business and natural coverage of bushes or tall grass is scarce. It also works when needing to change pants or shorts.
- Sit pad. When taking a break and sitting surfaces are damp.
- Mattress cover.
- Can make an emergency backpack or carryall.
- Windshell to add a bit of extra warmth to layers. Great for cool, early mornings when you need something that can be quickly removed after you have warmed up from walking.
Snorer prodder - hahaI like this game . . . Hiking Poles
- tent/tarp pole
- washing line across window frame
- cat hole digging stick
- makeshift triangular pack frame
- fencing foil
- drum major mace
- snorer prodder
- leg splint
My poncho actually has reinforced holes around the base for tent poles in case shelter is needed.As I was pondering about non-COVID things, I wondered what kind of multitasking master list we could come up with for the lowly poncho.
Your turn
- A shelter lean-to. (A bit of cord and trekking poles make it even more independent in setting up.)
- A sun shelter, it can be rigged up to provide you shade in hot climates.
- Ground cloth: Under a tent, or a survival shelter, a poncho can protect you from the damp ground. If you are in a cold damp climate, this can help you stay warm.
- Wind Break: While a poncho without the liner does not have much insulating qualities, you will be warmer if you wrap up in the poncho in windy weather, this will help protect you from wind chill.
- Privacy -- great emergency privacy screen when needing to do some 'elimination' business and natural coverage of bushes or tall grass is scarce. It also works when needing to change pants or shorts.
- Sit pad. When taking a break and sitting surfaces are damp.
- Mattress cover.
- Can make an emergency backpack or carryall.
- Wisndshell to add a bit of extra warmth to layers. Great for cool, early mornings when you need something that can be quickly removed after you have warmed up from walking.
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