solotripper wrote on Apr 25^th, 2015 at 2:31pm:

Some people make tubing yokes and use a tumpline. Not for everyone obviously. Yoke rides across his shoulders on his pack straps.   (You need to Login or Register Cliff Jacobson uses this combo-method. I think this idea has much merit.   (You need to Login or Register

Cliff's tumpline really interests me.  I have wanted to try a tump on my canoe but never went ahead because of the same concerns that Cliff mentions - I'll lose my balance or fall and strangle myself!  But the design that his friend came up with seems rather brilliant - brilliant because it is so obvious.  The only thing I'd want to do would be to devise a way to more easily shorten or lengthen the parachute cord so that the tension on the tump could be easily adjusted.  Can you think of knot or a system that might work for that?  Maybe either one of those small Nite Ize Figure 9s or one of their small Cam Jams?
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I'm definitely going to give it a try for my big trip this summer.  Thanks for posting this, ST.