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- From: dnewcomb@whale.st.usm.edu (Donald R. Newcomb)
- Subject: Re: Heavy Weight Backpacking (was Re: Light Weight Back Packing)
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 19:17:30 GMT
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- In article <C1Krx1.CB4@inews.Intel.COM> jreece@sousa.intel.com writes:
- >Once one fellow in my Boy Scout troop packed a big exterior car mirror that
- >weighed about a kilo. He didn't want to spring $1 for the little plastic
- >camping ones.
-
- Once, about '73, I was trudging my way up to the North Rim of the Grand
- Canyon after spending about a week "down below" when I met a troop of
- Boy Scouts coming down the trail. One of them had a Coleman two-burner
- camp stove hanging below his pack. I don't mean strapped on. It was
- swinging freely like a pendulum. With every step he took, it wacked him
- in the back of the leg. By the time I saw them it must have hit him 2000
- times and he had about 4000 more wacks to go but showed no sign that
- he found anything wrong with the situation.
-
- While we are on the subject of heavy weight; I have often wondered
- what camping in the backcountry was like before the invention of
- much of our "high tech" gear. The question was partially answered
- when a friend showed me a 1935 "Popular Science" magazine. One of the
- feature articles was on wilderness camping. Canvas tents, iron fry
- pans, folding chairs oil-skin ponchos were all part of a well planned
- camping trip. Oh yes, I almost forgot, a pack horse too. 8-)
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- Donald R. Newcomb * University of Southern Mississippi
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