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- From: trzyna@CS.ColoState.EDU (wayne trzyna)
- Newsgroups: rec.backcountry
- Subject: Re: Light Weight Back Packing?
- Message-ID: <Jan26.205738.26003@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 20:57:38 GMT
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- In article <1jvm1aINN7r3@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, as376@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Stephen C. Ferguson) writes:
- >
- > Does anyone know anything about very! light weight back
- > packing? I mean going into the woods for 1-2 nights with just
- > 20 lbs or so. I am not talking survival tactics quite, I would
-
- I ran into Charlie Fowler one evening at the base of the Longs Peak north
- face (about 13000 ft). He had no pack and was on his way up while the
- rest of us were on our way down... said he was going to just "crawl
- under a rock and sleep." He also said he had a snowmobile suit he wears
- on colder nights.
-
- When you think about it, a snowmobile suit's got to be warm, designed
- for sitting inactive in the cold wind. (Not that I want to start the
- great "motoroized ==> non-physical" debate again or anything.)
- --
-
- -Wayne Trzyna
- trzyna@CS.ColoState.EDU
-