{"id":794,"date":"2012-11-10T10:44:37","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T11:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/?p=794"},"modified":"2016-02-23T12:02:44","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T20:02:44","slug":"the-rain-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/the-rain-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rain in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

A<\/span>s you can see, I’ve added a countdown calendar to the blog on the left-hand side. Right now it stands at 20 weeks!<\/p>\n

Equipment testing continues, this time with an eye towards the weather<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We tested our water-proof regime a few weeks ago on a hike round and round Snake Lake<\/a>. Although we probably didn’t go any further than about five miles, the rain was really pelting down. Needless to say, some issues were discovered.<\/p>\n

I wore my Marmot rain jacket and deployed the pack’s built-in rain cover. I took the added precaution of lining the inside of the pack’s main compartment with a hefty garbage bag, closed tight with a large binder clip.<\/p>\n

First, the good news: nothing in the pack’s main compartment was the slightest bit wet. <\/p>\n

The bag’s rain cover did its job, though I could see that had I been out for, say, four or five hours in that kind of rain, it may very well have soaked through. I was especially concerned to see that water was pooling on the top and in some of the inevitable crevices. <\/p>\n

So for light rain or a short cloudburst, the pack’s cover should do nicely.<\/p>\n

I did notice that water was trickling down between my rain jacket and the pack, and I could see that with a sustained downpour, water would enter the pack that way.<\/p>\n

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Ferrino Trekker Poncho (except mine’s red)<\/p><\/div>After some thought, I took the plunge and purchased a Ferrino Trekker Poncho<\/a>\"\" from Amazon. It came highly recommended<\/a>, was on sale at the time, and with Amazon Prime shipping it was in my hands within a week.<\/p>\n

This thing is great<\/em>. It fits over body and pack, and it’s ridiculously light. It even comes with its own mesh bag. I can’t wait to try it out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As you can see, I’ve added a countdown calendar to the blog on the left-hand side. Right now it stands at 20 weeks! Equipment testing continues, this time with an eye towards the weather. We tested our water-proof regime a few weeks ago on a hike round and round Snake Lake. Although we probably didn’t go any further than about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gear","category-thom","tag-thom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3214,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions\/3214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}