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Ok as you guys can see I have got my ALICE pack right here, I have it laying with the
shoulder straps down. This is the bottom of the frame and the bottom of the pack. Now
what I am going to do is I am going to layout two pieces of about 4ft long line. Depending
on the size of your sleeping bag, but 4ft should work for an average size bag like I
have here. I am going to set up my Canadian Jam on the bottom ends of the line. If you
guys remember the video I just did on that, you can check that out. I will stick the link
in the description below or I will annotate it. And then the top part of the line will
be the part that feeds through the lops on the Canadian jam. I have done the same thing
on the other side and I have run it through these loops right here and through the frame,
that way I have got two attachment points and it kind of pulls it up in the corner there.
Then I have got six foot of line over here that I will use to go over the long way and
I will show you that here in just a minute. OK so now I am going to go ahead and take
the pack or the bag and I am going to stick it up on the pack and wedge it between the
frame and the bottom of the backpack. Then we will go ahead and pull our line through
and tighten up the jam. Get that nice and tight. Pull it all of the way down to the
bottom and then I can start cranking it up that way. Alright, so that has got that good
enough to hold it in place, now I will go ahead and do this one as well. Feed this line
through and tighten that jam up, pull it to the bottom. Now when I get those down there
in place I want to grab that and take my weight and kind of roll the bag into the bottom of
the backpack. At the same time I am going to be pulling up on those Canadian jams and
really really synching those things up nice and tight. Ok, so those are pretty good. Remember
the cool part about the Canadian jam is, now all we have to do is, we can pull the opposite
way and it will loosen right up. So that is pretty awesome. so we get those tightened
up. Now what I am going to do is I am going to take the longer six foot piece and I am
going to come across this way. And what I want to do is going to be to do a postal hitch
here and another postal hitch here and then attach it down there. And the reason you want
to do a postal hitch; it is a really easy knot, basically all you do is stick a loop,
take a byte in the paracord like this and then slide that underneath the Canadian jam
line that we just did. It should be good and tight for you. As a matter of fact you may
need to loosen it just a touch. You can always retighten it. There we go. So if you can see
that I put that loop out there. Now what I am going to do is take the long end of the
line that is still laying out there and I am going to run it through that loop. And
then tighten is up. Pull it back this way and tighten it up again. Now what that does
is that attaches this long line to the short Canadian jam lines so that your bag doesn't
shift and that kind of thing as you are walking. Now the reason I am doing this video for you
guys is because when I have ben out hiking on trails and stuff and even as an instructor
at the survival school , you know I see a lot of people have a hard time with attaching
gear to their backpack. Especially external frame packs like this ALICE pack. Do another
postal hitch here. And there is really no reason for it, you just have to know how to
do it. You just have to have this stuff on there nice and snug, where it doesn't really
go anywhere and where it doesn't shift or move on you. So that is kind of the purpose
for why I am doing this. Alright so now we have got this down here and what we are going
to do is just kind of run through the frame there and you can pick your spot it doesn't
really make any difference where. Then I am going to do a reverse slip knot, makes a nice
little loop in the line right there. Ok. And then I am going to do a truckers hitch. So
that will allow me to basically put all of my weight down on that and really tighten
that up good. Actually why don't we do a i don't know what they call it, a Locking truckers
hitch. Just run that through the loop twice and that should hold it a little bit better
for us. There we go. So now we have got that down nice and tight and we can run that down
through the frame and then back up here where you can get to it so that you can untie it
a little bit easier. Tying it down in here might be a little bit more difficult. You
can do it if it will work for you. But there is no reason that you can do it down here
either. Just going to tuck this line up underneath this and then come back and pull a byte through
and then secure it again and pull it good and tight. Ok. So now I will make sure my
Canadian jams are synched and there we go. The sleeping bag is on there it is not going
to come off, it is sucked in tight to the frame, it is n[t going to shift when you are
moving or anything like that and it is just going to work out really well for you. So
that is how to attach a sleeping bag to an external frame pack. Like I said this is an
ALICE pack, I think these are a great bug out bag pack you can get them for under fifty
bucks and they are very strong and very durable and they will work. There is a lot of things
you can do to them to upgrade them as far as comfort and all of that kind of stuff too.
So anyway guys I just wanted to show you guys that real quick trick on how to attach a sleeping
bag to an ALICE pack or an external frame backpack or bug out bag or whatever you want
to call it. Anyway guys as always I definitely appreciate when you click the thumbs up button,
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