UL backpacking chair help!

[Don H]

Matty, you should patent "The Fart Chair". And maybe an adapter to inflate the NEO (I'll give you that idea, just send royalties).

[Swordpen]

Tabasco

i love your idea. I have hip arthritis (both of them, 1 replaced). I always carry a camp stool with me, I am using a Walkstool Basic, 23 oz. It is 20" high. Its my one backpacking luxury.
A normal standard kitchen chair is 18" high. Now I know, thats a lot, but I'm stuck otherwise I couldnt move (from getting stiff on a hard surface), without sitting on something comfortable, & with bad hips its very difficult to get up off the ground (without the sickening sound of hip crepitus/ bone crunching on bone sound, going on & possibly an "I got you" sharp pain my hip wants to deliver at unexpected times during getting up, sigh).

As its 2 years after or so that you posted, I think I've seen you all brought this idea to fruition.

My only suggestion is to add shock pole hiking poles to your offering, as this is what I also use, I wouldn't hike without them (too painful).
Thank you for thinking of us arthritics, theres a good special place in heaven for people like you. Any physician will tell you, to keep active even if you have arthritis.

[GuitarMaster5001]

I can't access the Flickr page. It says it's private....

[QiWiz]

I hear you there. The main idea of our project was to find multiple uses for the gear an UL backpacker would already be carrying- the chair just seemed like a good outlet where people have tried to make a "backpacking" chair, except it ends up weighing a pound. If your poles and your sleeping back stuff sack (or regular stuff sack) were capable of combining into a chair, why not use it?

In our project, we have to assess the problem and the need of a solution. In our eyes, the problem was finding a way of improving the ratio between camp comfort and a light pack-weight. The chair seemed like the best solution.

Now for the poll- we need input from the users (that means you, hikers!) to see if this is a need that should be addressed or not. So please- If you feel like you would take a chair that would add an ounce or two to your pack weight, please say so. If not, could you give a reason against it (and mweinstone's anti-tech argument is a damn good one- I know a lot of people go in the woods to leave everything behind... but I also know a fair bunch of you are gear-heads)

Thanks a lot!

Oh yeah, the Jerry chair is a great design that we were looking at, but it seems a lot of you are looking to get off the ground. We're hoping to make more of a chair than a pad (like leaftye's vision) and hopefully at a lighter weight.

I would definitely carry a chair that added only 2 ounces to my pack weight. I volunteer now to test any prototypes you come up with. The most comfortable sort-of-light chair that I have tried is this one (but still a pound and a half, so too heavy for most backpack trips): http://www.rei.com/product/829239/rei-flex-lite-chair

[Grinder]

HOI (Hog on Ice) has developed just what you are asking about. It's documented herein somewhere. I've seen it.

The only negative is that it requires a tree or other upright pole for structure. That makes setting up next to the fire or conversation group a bit problematical sometimes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXOFR...667AAF&index=3