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- From: sml@yarra-glen.aaii.oz.au (Steven Law)
- Subject: Re: Light Weight Back Packing?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.011119.1711@yarra-glen.aaii.oz.au>
- Organization: Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute
- References: <1jvm1aINN7r3@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:11:19 GMT
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- I have done a couple of such walks. On an overnight walk I have taken:
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- 1 set of clothes, mostly worn all the time, jacket tied around waist when warm.
- 1 set of waterproofs.
- 2 lunches, 1 breakfast, 1 dinner + snacks.
- 1 stove full of fuel to save carrying a fuel bottle.
- 1 water bottle.
- Camera around neck.
- 1 sleeping bag. (What no Thermarest? I must have been tougher in those days!)
- 1 tent fly, poles and pegs.
- 1 day pack, with tent strapped to outside.
- All up weight < 10lbs I think.
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- I've also done this with a close friend a couple of times. Then we shared the
- stove, tent fly and sleeping bag (unzipped like a doona) and carried
- Thermarests! It's easier in summer when you don't have to carry lots of
- warm clothes.
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- Using a day pack with stuff strapped to the outside saves weight. My regular
- backpack weighs 2kg, a day pack weighs a few hundred grams.
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- You can also cover good distances without straining your self and because
- you only need light footwear.
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- For emergencies we carried lost of common sense :-)
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- Steve
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