Mt Whitney Zone Forums The Chat Room For fun: Lowest REI membership number out there

#202766. When the Colorado Springs store opened several years ago they had a contest with a nice prize
for the person with the lowest number. I figured I was a cinch to win, but some"old" guy (I am 72) aced
me out and by quite a few hundred lower numbers. Actually a friend of mine who works at REI here also was
lower than I, but he was not eligible for the prize. He joined a few months earlier than I did back in 1961.

I too had a US green down surplus store sleeping bag, circa 1948 when I lst started hiking the John Muir Trail
at age 10. I carried it in one of those gosh awful heavy A frame metal packs, also from the surplus store.