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- Barber's Laws of Backpacking
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- 1) The integral of the gravitational potential taken around
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- any loop trail you choose to hike always comes out positive.
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- 2) The weight of your pack increases in direct proportion
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- to the amount of food you consume from it. If you
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- run out of food, the pack weight goes on increasing anyway.
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- 3) The difficulty of finding any given trail marker is directly
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- proportional to the importance of the consequences of failing
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- to find it.
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- 4) The remaining distance to your chosen campsite remains
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- constant as twilight approaches.
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- 5) When you arrive at your chosen campsite, it is full.
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- 6) The local density of mosquitos is inversely proportional to
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- your remaining repellent.
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