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- From: alpope@acacia.Eng.Sun.COM (Alan L. Pope)
- Newsgroups: rec.backcountry
- Subject: Re: Light Weight Back Packing?
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 05:36:56 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA
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- > So the ultimate lightweight backpack trip is to leave the food, stove, pots,
-
- I wouldn't suggest all food but one can
- cut down without depravation.
-
- Around 1970 I spent a week on 27 lbs.
- Took some fishing tackle and license,
- a tube tent (that I made of polystyrene),
- no stove, no fuel (except matches),
- no mattress), no water filter. Also only
- took two clean socks and two clean shorts,
- no etxra pants or shirt, and one down jacket.
- Had to go to bed early cause it was pretty
- cold.
-
- Of course, on the down side I had a wood
- pack frame and an 8 lb dacron sleeping bag.
-
- While the pack frame is repeatable, the w/o
- stove and water filter are not. And yes, I
- did pack out my tube tent.
- --
- Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring
- the deadening effect of a habit.--W. Somerset Maugham <alpope@Eng.Sun.COM>
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