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Are they worth there high cost. Do they dry fast. Wich brand is best?

Just get one, as far as I know, they are all the same. Get a yellow one; they're the best

I know some Canadians (just to let you know that I actually do know some) who bought one pack towel and then cut it in half with scissors.

They claim that just half a pack towel is sufficient.

Of course, they are Canadians.

really? I have a yellow coleman one, but I dont know if it absorbs water at all... seems to just smeer it

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mine works fine (but it is blue - maybe the superior shade?)
and its real fluffy and nice too

Marylou

Mine is also blue!

It is ok, not great. I tend to borrow when I crash with friends and hang it out to dry. It does dry well, but I usually cant dry it before I leave somewhere. On a bike, it has to be packed away, but with a car you can drape it over a seat. I reckon it would drape nicely across a backpack as well...

The essential thing? It works well enough to dry the bits of me that matter.

BTW - made by Snowgum, I have the large.

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Oh yeah, it is quite small, has it's own handy mesh bag and fits in my luggage...

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You were talking about your towel, I hope.
If not, then you might need the Willy Brush

Well... The mesh bag thing does remind me about the string vest things that Latinos in American tv sometimes wear, but I can't see myself adapting one of those...

It does fit in my luggage though!

Thanks Joe, brought me back down to the level I've grown accustomed to.

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The ultimate male grooming item maybe?

thanks for the laugh Joe

Marylou

little string bags aside , i always just bring a sarong when i'm traveling and that seems to suit pretty much any need, especially as a towel surrogate. they dry unbelievably fast, i can wrap myself in it after a shower, i can use it as a sheet, even as a little bag if necessary. once when i spent a week in a dingy little hotel room, i hung it on the wall the cheer the room up!

I saw some pack towels at REI the other day - forget the brand name - but there was a small, 10" x 30", that sold for $7. I was thinking I might snag one up - I'm a small person, short hair, and the price seems right.

Or do you guys know where you can find same/better quality/cheaper? Or should I just snag up that?

Cheers, Anthony

definately going to get a pac towel,
which brand/colour is the best?

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"Get a yellow one; they're the best."

Which brought them back again to the beginning of the conversation. Alice felt a little irritated at the caterpillar's making such very short remarks, and she drew herself up and said, very gravely, "I think you ought to tell me what kind of pack towel you have, first."

Now that I've gotten that out of my system, perhaps I can give a more substantial answer; I've seen 2 kinds of pack towels: a thick, sponge/felt-like towell that absorbs an amazing amount of water, but that does so very slowly (move it around quickly and it will feel like you're just smearing the water around you instead of getting dry) - and a thin normal-seeming cloth towel that doesn't absorb more than you'd expect, but does dry pretty darn quickly.

I have one of the latter and am happy with it, but it's only worth the extra cost if drying quickly and is important to you. Okay, it also folds down to almost nothing.

I don't carry a Paktowel. No, Sir, I don't like them. I thought that I wrote about them somewhere on the TravelGearBlog, but all I could find is my confession about towel angst in this entry.

(and I was just kidding about the color...)

OK, its been a week now and I went to REI and bought 2 of them, both are named PacTowel, the one my wife choose is the very soft green one Bath size (29.95)I went for the blue one more rugged and smaller (15.95). They dont dry as fast as I would like but they are unbelievable. Both have a different feel , my wife is happy with her because it is softer I like mine because it is as efficient yet cheaper. I like it better than a cotton towel.
They are also very useful in drying the cloths you wash because they absord so much water. The only downside is they dont dry that fast so you will need a plastic bag to carry them in your pack.

Hey Bob,

Consider a mesh bag that you can tie onto the outside of your pack for carrying a wet towel.

After a day or two in a wet plastic bag, that towel won't be much good for a clean body... escpecially in the tropics.

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So you have a wet towel, put it into a sealed plastic bag where the bacteria, molds and fungi will happily breed and prosper on the dirt and dead skin cells that came off onto it when you toweled off, provide some warmth to encourage quick growth and then take it out and run it all over your open skin pores after showering thereby ensuring infection, illness and body odor.

You say that like it's a bad thing!

A dry towel is sounding better and better.
(and yes, I did take a microbiology intro course in college)

I understand the convenience, but nothing beats a soft, big, fluffy cotton number for drying off your regions after a hot shower.

ahhhhhh, the sacrafices we make.

I bought a blue pack towel last night at GI Joes for $5. They had I think 3 or 4 differant brands and a variety of sizes. I got the cheapest one and the most expensive one was $30.

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