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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.