Question of Survival

[Mortblanc]

Those umbrella type baby strollers also fold up flat and take up little space in the boot. They are also cheap!

One could shove their pack into the baby seat, secure it with a couple of bungee cords and be gone in a flash.

Anything beats carrying the pack for both young and healthy folks and those of us getting on into the malady laden years.

I always try to remember that a horse can carry about 100 kilos on its back without harm. That same horse can pull a wheeled cart that contains a ton!

That is why I never reply or comment to threads about best pack, pack size, pack color, how many pockets or zippers? I do not care. I am not carrying a pack anywhere for any distance.

As a side note we have in our history over here a series of westward migration that have become legend. One of those migrations was the transport of Mormon believers from Iowa to Utah, about 1000 miles, with the sole means of transport of all supplies and goodies being the use of two wheeled hand carts. The carts were capable of transporting 500 pounds of supplies and were pulled by a single human.

Most of these pioneers of the American West, were immigrants fresh off the boat from Scotland, England and Wales, so there is a valid connection to UK survival in the analogy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_handcart_pioneers

Of course those are way too big for stashing in the boot, but the connection by emergency use is present.