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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

JWren
05-20-2008, 10:44
Too heavy, too bulky

ofthearth
05-20-2008, 10:50
can you get it with AC?

ki0eh
05-20-2008, 10:50
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."

Hooch
05-20-2008, 11:48
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

weary
05-20-2008, 13:01
http://media.popularmechanics.com/images/nubrella-430-0508.jpg
What's he do with his second Leki?

Summit
05-20-2008, 13:58
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...