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PACKS FOR PEDESTRIANS 129For regular packing, when one sleeps out, thebest pack sack at a moderate price that I know ofis what is known as the Duluth, or, from its inventor,the Poirier pattern (Fig 32). Originallymadefor trappers, timber cruisers, and other professionalwoodsmen, it is now used by manysportsmen as well. The Duluth sack has no boxedsides, but is sewed up in the form of a simple bag^and so is made wider and higher than boxed ones ofequalcapacity.32.—DuluthSackPackFig. 33.—Whelen PackSackThe advantage is that one's blanket, which goesin first, as a pad for the back, can be folded twofeet square, or a little more, and consequently infewer thicknesses ; hence the bag packs flatter than aboxed one and does not bulge so far backward atthe top. Poirier makes his pack sacks in threegrades: (A) 12-oz. duck, heavy grain leathershoulder straps and canvas head strap, all straps andbuckles fastened with copper rivets and burrs; (B)lo-oz. duck, canvas shoulder and head straps; (C)lo-oz. duck, canvas shoulder straps, no head strap.By all means get the A grade, as canvas slings will