Sled/Pack Frame

I\'ve used the kid\'s plastic sled approach (4lb), O.K. on flat terrain, not on tight or brushy mountain trails. Do you have some user experience to share?
Walt
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whcobbs, thanks for your interesrt. I have carried this as a pack often testing its comfort. I live in San Antonio, Texas and we don\'t get much snow here. It works real well as an external frame pack. I was going to Georgia last Christmas/New Years and was hoping they would have some snow but they didn\'t. I expect to go to Maine in January or February 2005 and climb Mt Katahdin. You ski into a shelter one day and climb Katahdin the next day and ski back out. I expect to pull the sled with my gear on it for the ski in part. I will do more hiking/sking/snow shoeing while I am up there. I have been cross-country skiing and have pulled a plastic kids sled also. I want to hike some of the AT in the winter and thought the Sled/Pack Frame approach would let me have the best of both worlds. A sled to pull when the trail will let me and when I can\'t pull it I will carry it. At the time I made it I wasn\'t to concerned about the weight. I don\'t think 3 pounds for the sled is to bad but I have been playing with a design for a lighter one.