Dimensions

The other day, I think it was Wednesday, I fiddled around with finding out some dimensions for my first prototype.  I mainly took the sleeping bag as the design driver since it is the the most important gear piece for me.  I care that it not get too compressed.  I want it to stay as lofty as possible, really, but it needs to be protected.  Therefore it needs the protective stuff sack and the current design is the one I should start with.  I wrapped the tape measure around the current one and figured out the tightest circumference I would want to hold.  I used that to find the diameter of 7".  So that is where I am going to start with the width of the pack.  I also always put the sleeping bag in the bottom of the pack so I just need a curved bottom of the pack.  A nice fit will be nice because the Six Moon was a little too big and I always had to stuff clothes in there to get  a well compacted back pack.  It was frustrating because I never had a well figured out plan with how to stuff things in there all the time and I know that it was awkwardly crushing the sleeping bag or etc...  This will be a nicely welcomed change.  It's simple, it requires zero thought to put together, and I can use the clothes to wrap around all the awkwardly shaped items like the cook pot, the food.  (That reminds me that I need to make a new stuff sack for food.  Something lightweight that fits inside the pack well.)  Is it really only the cook pot?  Heh, beers at some point for sure.  Oh, and the water bag or bottles, maybe the poncho if I use it.  That lends me to believe that I can get away with a much smaller pack.  The only things that take up any real space are the sleeping bag, the down jacket, food, and the cook pot/fuel.  Actually, at some point it will be the bear can but I need to come up with other ideas for that later. I do like the idea of the bear can on the outside of the pack.  That lends me to believe I can make the pack the right size for everything and figure out a way to strap it on.  I can tackle that issue later, though.