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Re: Rain covers

Rain covers are a bit of a faff. And can call the attention of The Style Police, particularly when teamed with Crocs and dangly map cover thangs. They make a particularly good show in high winds.

I use a number of dry bags.In fact I put everything into them. Fluffy downy things go into both an innner and an outer. Dry bags also work as Wet Bags if yr in the humour for scooping up quantities of water for some reason.

But . . . if anyone wants an Osprey rain-cover (fits up to an Osprey 70 and I guess would fit most anything else) which has never ever been used, drop me an eMail and its yours absolutely free. Well, a snifter in Montrose wouldn't go amiss.

Re: Rain covers

alan.sloman
Pack covers are worse than useless when you fall in a river. Belt and braces for me


You've got me really interested here, Mr Sloman.

My personal experience has been that belt and braces are equally useless when you fall in a river. Do they, perhaps, have some additional functionality of which I am unaware? How, please, are you using them?

Re: Rain covers

You're missing a colon, Jezza. Possible result of your tumble this year, Sir?

Re: Rain covers

Missing a colon as a result of my tumble? I don't think so. I admit that my last colonoscopy was BEFORE the tumble (ewwww ... TMI!!!) so nobody has positively verified its presence by a #1 eyeball inspection since the event to which you allude: but even so, I think I'd have noticed if anything THAT drastic were to go missing ...

Re: Rain covers

Before hiking in Scotland i was using a garbage bag as a liner inside my backpack and that was all.
When we hiked on the CWT with Elise we got 8 days of non stop rain.
My gear stayed dry, but my backpack was drenched and seemed very heavy.
Elise was using a raincover on her Ula Catalyst and her backpack stayed mostly dry.

Back at home i did the following test with a few backpacks,
- weighting it dry
- going under a shower with it
- suspending it upside down for a few minutes
- weighting it again

the added weight was up to more than 500g


while the same test with a rain cover it was much lower.


So now when i hike in Scotland i use a rain cover, but only to save weight .

( but my sleeping bag and down hoodie are in dry bags )

Re: Rain covers

Thanks for the info Frederic, I'll continue to use by DOE'esk flappy faffy pack cover + Exped Micro dry bags as a tried and tested combo.