Take a seat!

[Oak88]

I used the Z lite sit pad for my bony ... It was great sitting on hard wet rocks, wet logs, and the ground. Folds up nice and was always accessible on the outside of my pack. I frequently got asked if it was my sleeping pad. I left it on a tree one day and a wonderful woman caught up with me on top of Killington with my sit pad.

[HooKooDooKu]

Agree. Just carry a small closed cell sit pad.

Ditto.

I just bought one of those $15 blue pads at WalMart. There's enough to make several sit pads. Gives you a dry place to sit when everything else is damp around you, gives enough padding for sitting on irregular surfaces (rocks), and doubles as a fan for fanning the flames of a camp fire. You can punch a hole in one corner, tie a small piece of cord to the pad and get a tiny carabiner to hook it to the outside of your pack.

[slbirdnerd]

Get a $5 car windshield sunscreen and cut a square big enough for your butt. Tape the unfinished edges with Duct tape. Lights, cheap, easy, keeps butt dry and possibly warm... Easy to replace especially when Boy Scout loses it on next hike.

[Ktaadn]

I keep copied pages from my guidebook in a 1 gallon ziplock bag. I'll sit on that to eat sometimes. If I'm sitting down to check the guidebook, then sometimes I'll sit on my folded rain pants.

[Hiker8261]

If you use a piece of a foam pad, take a giant Sharpie and write "HIKER TO TOWN" on one side and "HIKER TO TRAIL" on the other big enough for a driver to see it from a distance. I saw someone with one of those and they said it helped with rides.

chris

[bigcranky]

That is freaking brilliant and I am going to get a sharpie and write on my sit pad this weekend. Thanks for the idea.


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

[slbirdnerd]

If you use a piece of a foam pad, take a giant Sharpie and write "HIKER TO TOWN" on one side and "HIKER TO TRAIL" on the other big enough for a driver to see it from a distance. I saw someone with one of those and they said it helped with rides.

chris

I saw that too, on a bandana. Genius!

[bamboo bob]

Stop - put up tent- cook while squating or sitting on anything at all for the time it takes to scarf down "meal" get in tent - get in bag - sleep -get up- pee-walk -repeat.

Not much sitting in a day.

[tsgosnell]

Dollar store gardening knee pad, also use it to put down under my pack if the ground is really wet, helps keep water off the backside when putting pack back on

[flemdawg1]

My hammock makes an awesome seat. Great dual use item. If I want to sit in it and be abit social, I'll prop up one side of my tarp with hiking poles, or just leave the tarp down until night or weather dictates.

[Mick3y]

I use an 11x18 closed cell pad from Home Depot. Cost me a whopping $6 and works perfect to add a "frame" to my frameless pack