Fanny pack or hip belt pocket?

I sewed an apron and used that as a way to carry extra stuff. It worked really well but looked sort of dorky. I also had to add features to make it sit right on my body.

I used these instructions. http://www.make-it-do.com/sew-it/garden-apron-tutorial/ You could probably find something similar at a garden supply store. I don’t see why something like this couldn’t be totally useful for backcountry trips. I mean, what if you have to carry actual garden tools like a saw and some clippers? Why not use a gardening apron? And bars and snacks, phones and cameras are about the same size as a pair of clippers so why not?

Lumber yards used to give away nail aprons with their name on them:

But you can still get one at Home Depot for $1.48:

Try it out, if it works for you, tweak the size and maybe add velcro closures when you make one from nylon taffeta or cuben fabric.

I used to create custom cargo pants, of a sort, when I was hanging Sheetrock. I’d scavenge a pocket off an old pair of jeans, and sew it on to my upper right thigh on the outside, kind of where an old-west gunslinger would have his Colt Army revolver. I’d sub-divide it into two narrow and one wider pocket for a Phillips screwdriver, a slotted, and a razor knife – the only three hand tools I needed to have handy.

No belt, no tool belt, no extra bulk.

I’d scavenge a pocket off an old pair of jeans, and sew it on to my upper right thigh on the outside,
Didn’t that hurt and bleed everywhere?

Cheers

For the last three years or so I have used the first generation dyneema gridstop ThruPack Summit Bum. I like the concept of a fanny pack very much, wearing it in front over my waist belt or with a backpack w/o a waist belt, depending on the pack I am using.  I like being able to remove my waistbelt pockets since when overstuffed I find my arms sometimes brush against them as I swing them back and forth, with or without hiking poles.   The Summit Bum is handy also that I can keep key items with me when I am not wearing my backpack.  But at 5″ tall, 10″ wide, and 3″ deep it was bigger than I needed and I found that it tended to bounce against my privates which could be irritating.

So I recently asked Paul at ThruPack to make a custom size Summit Bum UL (DCF) with taped seams which is 4 1/4″ tall, 9″ wide and 3″ deep, plenty big for my needs.  I also had him include the rigging allowing it to be worn either as a fanny pack or as a chest pack.  The weight of it alone is expected to be 2 oz and with my existing “comfy strap” 4 oz.  I will receive it early next week and expect that to use it on all of my trips, short or long.  I’ll include a photo when it arrives.

. 5 WAYS TO ROCK A SUMMIT BUM FANNY PACK .

So, if you constantly wear your fanny pack/bum bag/murse, do the items in it qualify as worn weight? ;-)

He does both belts- but you need to eliminate the belt on the fanny pack and clip it on.

Liteaf offers a fanny with detachable belt for 40. (but no photos of it or the clip system, which is odd)

https://liteaf.com/product/fanny-pack/

i wear a super light fanny pack turned around so that its’ a belly pack. Perfect for carrying my steripen, map and lunch. And as David says, perfect for day hikes.

I can’t bring myself to use the term f****** pack, here it has a different and much coarser meaning. But if you mean a bum bag I have a big one that I keep all my little things in and when wearing my pack it sits in front just as Todd T does

I can’t bring myself to use either term because they both sound undignified. Somebody should add 3 ounces of PALS strips to butch it up, make it in camo, and give it a new name. Then I could buy one and cut off the PALS strips to save weight.