Dumbest biggest thing you've ever carried

[bobqzzi]

Time will tell how dumb this really is, or even how heavy it is, but I'm sure to get lots of ribbing for this next year.

I'm making fleece pajamas for my AT hike. Here's the theory. You need warm dry clothes to wear in camp, right? What's warmer for its weight than fleece? So I'm thinking that a one-piece fleece union suit is just the ticket. I couldn't find any for sale, so I'm making it. So far it looks like it's going to weigh about 18 ounces, which is about the same as the dry clothes it replaces. But it also eliminates the need for a sleeping bag liner, so effectively it's only 10 ounces -- the same as a pair of long pants.

Theoretically, I even could make it with footies to wear inside my crocs, which would probably be lighter than a spare pair of socks, but somehow I think that's more than even my battered 56 year old ego could stand. I left off the footies.

Dumb idea?

Be sure to include a trap door.

[strollingalong]

one-piece fleece union suit is just the ticket

ticket to your trail name, son.

You are hereby formally christened as Teletubby

[Sickmont]

ticket to your trail name, son.

You are hereby formally christened as Teletubby

Ha! I second it. Thats awesome.

[QiWiz]

On the AT in PA, many years ago, a full-size watermelon, biggest the store had, as part of a hoax to "see if we could find any edible plants" in the woods near our campsite with a group of scouts. We cached it under some wild grape vines and "discovered" it. Had them all looking for more for about an hour.

[Harrison Bergeron]

ticket to your trail name, son.

You are hereby formally christened as Teletubby

Hadn't thought of that. Is it too late to suggest "PJ" instead?

[Rocket Jones]

Hadn't thought of that. Is it too late to suggest "PJ" instead?

Binky?

[Dobie Swift]

A Duraflame log.

[Old Hiker]

A Duraflame log.

Please tell me you did NOT carry it back out!

[Buzz_Lightfoot]

Please tell me you did NOT carry it back out!

Why not. Aren't there carry out what you carry in laws?

[gungho]

i use to carry a tent, but now just stay in shelters, and i dont carry food, just live off the land or newbies that carry too much food

[Old Hiker]

Why not. Aren't there carry out what you carry in laws?

I just KNEW there was a reason they sent me to the quartermaster during Scout Camp for that smoke chaser!

[berninbush]

What's warmer for its weight than fleece? So I'm thinking that a one-piece fleece union suit is just the ticket. I couldn't find any for sale, so I'm making it.

I bought a fleece suit on www.sportsmansguide.com, but the only ones I see on there now are cotton. It IS nice and warm.

[jlore]

2 day hike: i had at least 5 days worth of dog food, 4 ramans (which i ate) 3 cans of campbells chunky soup

[mcskinney]

2 day hike: i had at least 5 days worth of dog food, 4 ramans (which i ate) 3 cans of campbells chunky soup

4 ramens and 3 cans of soup is 5 days worth of food?

[Old Hiker]

4 ramens and 3 cans of soup is 5 days worth of food?

Evidently hiking in Somalia or Ethiopia.

[strollingalong]

*starving people are funny

[Pommes]

I carry the biggest glass bottle of Crown Royal i can fit in my bag. So if you see the Pommes come over and have a glass.

[Distilled]

Mini bar with a battery operated blender to make snow daiquiris.

I see nothing dumb about this. How'd they turn out?

[TheTwanger]

In the absence of proper equipment on a spontaneous hike at Savage Gulf, my girlfriend and I carried a fifty pound army duffel full with an unreasonable amount of canned food, and a cardboard box which was toted over my head full of glass beer and liquor bottles and a full tackle box amongst other random things and on top of the cardboard box balanced two fishing poles.... And we didn't find the trail head in time, so we hiked in with it in the dark on a trail we didn't know with a crappy two AA flashlight....

[LordoftheWings]

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