A collection of backpaking/hiking kilt blogs/site etc. and "rain kilts"

[Alan H]

I've made small boat sails out of Tyvek and they worked pretty well. I've even epoxy-laminated a couple of layers of house-wrap tyvek onto curved foam to make a composite structre for a boat and that worked OK. I'm not sure about kilts, though...but heck, it would be worth a try.

Me? I"m squarely in the Old Skool camp. I hike 5-8 miles a day carrying 48 pounds, more or less. Our favorite gig is to take two days to get "In" beyond the reach of 99% of the day hikers and find a nice lake to set up at. We then spend 3 days day-hiking and exploring. Then we either blast out in one day because the packs are lighter (we ate all the food) or take two days to get out to the trailhead.