Camping with gaffe tape...
It has been a long belief that everything can be fixed with duct tape, and in no place more is this true, than while camping. Duct tape fixes leaks in tents, makes handy straps, implement some sticks and you can just about make anything while in the woods. People have written books "100 uses for Duct Tape" and others have even made TV shows. Just watch an episode of Myth Busters and count the number of times you see duct tape in hand.
I use gaffe tape. I find it to be more practical and a staple of the industry that I have come to plant myself in. Gaffe tape is always on me, it's covers the back of my phone, my iPad and all my tools that I need write my name on in silver sharpie, there is gaffe tape.
On a recent multi night winter backpack trip, I had managed to put a good gash in my leg as well as my hiking pants. I had a roll of gaffe tape in my bag and now bleeding and exposed in the winter to a 1'+ of fresh snow, I did hesitate for a moment to not only put a gaffe tape patch on my tear in my pants, but it also worked just great for covering my injury as well.
I have since healed, but have not gone any further to ment my pants as the tape has held up just fine. I did a nice job of making sure the tape went on smoothly and taped both the inside and outside of the pants, as if you ever noted, that if gaffe tape sticks to itself (sticky side to sticky side) there is no means of taking it apart.
I went hiking this weekend, using those very pants again. While at the top of Mt. Liberty, I encountered a small group of people that I had a quick chat with while at the summet. Only after a few quick words in on of the members of the other group, surprised and entertained asked "Is that Gaffe tape on your pants" I relied "Why yes, yes it is!" as I was instantly impressed that he called it out as gaffe tape, and thus a bond, as strong as the tape it self had just formed over the joy and bond over the culture that is gaff tape.
He a high school drama instructor, out hiking with some of his student techies. We had a good chat over all things gaffe, audio, teater, and lighting. His students were both sophomores in high school and quite avid and skilled persons into theater lighting and sound, which if you no me in the slightest, is where I got myself started.
This was too good of a moment to note share, and thus, I write.
Chris
It has been a long belief that everything can be fixed with duct tape, and in no place more is this true, than while camping. Duct tape fixes leaks in tents, makes handy straps, implement some sticks and you can just about make anything while in the woods. People have written books "100 uses for Duct Tape" and others have even made TV shows. Just watch an episode of Myth Busters and count the number of times you see duct tape in hand.
I use gaffe tape. I find it to be more practical and a staple of the industry that I have come to plant myself in. Gaffe tape is always on me, it's covers the back of my phone, my iPad and all my tools that I need write my name on in silver sharpie, there is gaffe tape.
On a recent multi night winter backpack trip, I had managed to put a good gash in my leg as well as my hiking pants. I had a roll of gaffe tape in my bag and now bleeding and exposed in the winter to a 1'+ of fresh snow, I did hesitate for a moment to not only put a gaffe tape patch on my tear in my pants, but it also worked just great for covering my injury as well.
I have since healed, but have not gone any further to ment my pants as the tape has held up just fine. I did a nice job of making sure the tape went on smoothly and taped both the inside and outside of the pants, as if you ever noted, that if gaffe tape sticks to itself (sticky side to sticky side) there is no means of taking it apart.
I went hiking this weekend, using those very pants again. While at the top of Mt. Liberty, I encountered a small group of people that I had a quick chat with while at the summet. Only after a few quick words in on of the members of the other group, surprised and entertained asked "Is that Gaffe tape on your pants" I relied "Why yes, yes it is!" as I was instantly impressed that he called it out as gaffe tape, and thus a bond, as strong as the tape it self had just formed over the joy and bond over the culture that is gaff tape.
He a high school drama instructor, out hiking with some of his student techies. We had a good chat over all things gaffe, audio, teater, and lighting. His students were both sophomores in high school and quite avid and skilled persons into theater lighting and sound, which if you no me in the slightest, is where I got myself started.
This was too good of a moment to note share, and thus, I write.
Chris
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