View Full Version : Thru Hiking CHANGED forever
RITBlake
05-20-2008, 09:37
An Appalachian Trail Thru Hike will never be the same again! Someone needs to modify this to attach to a full backpack!
http://www.popularmechanics.com/blogs/technology_news/4264369.html
forgive me if this is a repost!
Gray Blazer
05-20-2008, 09:40
They left out Gene Kelly!!
JayMosier
05-20-2008, 09:40
hahahaha thats for pussies
NICKTHEGREEK
05-20-2008, 09:52
Picture the inventor wearing one and it's all fogged up and filled with:
a. Totally pissed off Hornets
b. Starving vampire bats
c. Maine black flies
Back to the drawing board
sasquatch2014
05-20-2008, 10:41
Trail name for the guy wearing this is easily Bubble Boy
ofthearth
05-20-2008, 10:50
can you get it with AC?
Can it convert to a hang glider and just float over the PUDs?
4eyedbuzzard
05-20-2008, 10:56
Trail name for the guy wearing this is easily Bubble Boy
Or Buzz Lightyear. "Forget just thru-hiking - To infinity and beyond."
Is that his Neil Armstrong or Buzz Aldrin impersonation? :banana
RITBlake
05-20-2008, 12:00
http://media.popularmechanics.com/images/nubrella-430-0508.jpg
http://media.popularmechanics.com/images/nubrella-430-0508.jpg
What's he do with his second Leki?
I gotta have one for the Jimmy Buffet concert in a couple of weeks my wife and I are going to! :D :p
sofaking
05-20-2008, 14:15
Is that his Neil Armstrong or Buzz Aldrin impersonation? :banana
buzz lightyear...
88BlueGT
05-21-2008, 00:47
i was just looking at this the other day in the airplane magazine hammacher something.... or something like that. thing is great lol.
sasquatch2014
05-21-2008, 13:16
I want one of the little hats that has the small umbrella attached to the top. :)
WalkingStick75
05-21-2008, 14:09
Optional equipment include windshield wipers and defrosters to defog the interior
Cabin Fever
05-21-2008, 14:47
I would exercise the wiper option for mine.
4eyedbuzzard
05-21-2008, 15:13
Can ya get it with A/C?
billy231
05-21-2008, 19:55
Looks like the helmet used in the movie "Thunder Dome."
"Two men enter...one man leave!"
whitefoot_hp
05-21-2008, 19:57
the concept of an umbrella is hardly unprecedented on the AT.
sofaking
05-21-2008, 22:28
not sh1t, ENERGY!
sofaking
05-21-2008, 22:29
not sh1t, ENERGY!
um, a reference to beyond thunder dome...