Originally Posted By: TeacherRO
Building your own 72 hour pack has these advantages:
1. Almost always a better, bigger pack

Bigger? Definitely. Better? That would depend on the definition of "better."

Originally Posted By: TeacherRO
2. You can personalize the gear for your situation
3. Most pre-stuffed packs have little room for anything else. Wanna bring a jacket and your laptop...then you're out of luck.

True.

Originally Posted By: TeacherRO
4. You can avoid toting cheap, heavy gear by not adding it.

That statement sounds subjective.

Originally Posted By: TeacherRO
5. It'll force you to think...

Comparing and researching commercial kits has challenged me to think.

Jeanette Isabelle
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I'm not sure whose twisted idea it was to put hundreds of adolescents in underfunded schools run by people whose dreams were crushed years ago, but I admire the sadism. -- Wednesday Adams, Wednesday