Pat Flannery wrote:

Thanks for the link to that page, it's got very interesting diagrams
on it regarding where everything was stowed in the LM descent stage,
and I've bookmarked it for future study. By the time they got into the
J series missions like Apollo 15, they were toting all sorts of stuff
around on the sides of the descent stage:
http://www.myspacemuseum.com/quads3b.gif
It would be fun to get the Monogram model of the LM and soup it up to
portray all the extra equipment from one of the later missions.

This diagram showing how things could be hoisted into or lowered from
the LM ascent stage is interesting also:
http://www.myspacemuseum.com/lm-lecb.gif
I hadn't thought about that aspect of trying to drag the rocks up the
ladder with you.
Hopping up onto that ladder still looks challenging. You would have
thought they'd have made it telescoping and have it extend all the way
into the landing pad, or at least have a fold-down lower section the
astronaut could extend as he descended it.
The ladder on the Soviet LK was a lot more involved than ours:
http://www.astronautix.com/craft/lk.htm

Pat