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WBraun
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A rucksack can't climb sh!t .....
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Marlow
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OSLO
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No, that's true. Neither can historical stuff or posting on ST. Did you know? :o)
Do you want to hear a poem?
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ron gomez
Trad climber
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Hey Werner, hope you guys are doing ok there. Nordic skiing must be good on the floor. Merry still have her Martin?
Peace
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Tarbuster
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Feb 16, 2019 - 03:54pm PT
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Marlow
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OSLO
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Feb 17, 2019 - 09:57am PT
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Cool wall! :o)
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Here's a no nonsense Lafuma rucksack carrying a mark indicating that it was made for use during climbing
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nutstory
Trad climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 6, 2019 - 06:01am PT
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Marlow, at that time, Lafuma had only one label that they put on all their rucksacks, whatever their uses.
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Marlow
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Nutstory
Good to know. Do you know for which use this rucksack was marketed? Climbing? Daypack for different uses? Other?
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Tarbuster
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^^^
That certainly is a very lean, aesthetic and economic design feature where the shoulder straps appear to exit through grommets in the lid to form a handle/haul loop.
(Though I don't think that's exactly what's happening.)
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Here's an American classic in action, likely a Chouinard Fish Pack:
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nutstory
Trad climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 6, 2019 - 09:31am PT
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Marlow, it is just a little sack for young people, or for a working day.
I have not found it in my old Lafuma catalog 1938.
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nutstory
Trad climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 6, 2019 - 09:54am PT
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Marlow, maybe this one...
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Nutstory,
Aha, le Grepon...
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Tarbuster
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Le Grepon. So it probably is a climber's pack!
And that leather handle most likely was intended as a haul loop where it emerges from the grommets just above the (cotton?) webbing of the shoulder straps.
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Tarbuster
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Lead on, Charlemagne!
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Marlow
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OSLO
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Another
Go back to the romantic movement and the noble savages...
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