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Now here’s a clever idea, a pack cover with an integrated hood to provide full rain protection for your pack, head and shoulders. The OR Pack Hoody is constructed of 40 denier silnylon fabric with taped seams. A bungee cord anchors the hood to a pack sternum strap. And the whole works packs into an integrated stuff sack.
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By Will Rietveld
Will Rietveld Ph.D, Senior Editor for Gear and Apparel, joined the BPL staff in April 2004. In his former career, Will was a research scientist, project manager, and R&D program administrator. Now retired, he lives in southern Colorado where he takes up a new career of backpacking year-round in the mountains and canyon country of the Southwest. During the summer months Will and his wife Janet are volunteer wilderness rangers in the Weminuche Wilderness. He has been a lightweight backpacker for 52 years and an ultralight backpacker for 13 years.