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- From: ron@isgtec.com (Ron Lipsius)
- Newsgroups: rec.backcountry
- Subject: Re: Heavy Weight Backpacking (was Re: Light Weight Back Packing)
- Message-ID: <4098@isgtec.isgtec.com>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 18:58:04 GMT
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- Kinson Ho (ho@helen.CS.Berkeley.EDU) wrote:
-
- : What are the unusual (and RARELY USED) items people carry when they
- : go *heavy* weight backpacking?
-
- : For example: elaborate repair kits (what?), signal flares, IV sets,
- : satellite phones etc.
-
- Ok, I'll bite!
-
- Two years ago I ran a little canoe trip going into Killarney
- (a provincial park.) I delegated different tasks out, and the
- food was designated to a fellow named John. (There were two
- John's on the trip, naming is purposefully ambiguous.) What
- do I find when we actually set up the site?
-
- A Heavy Cast Iron Crock-Pot (~20lbs)
- This is on a trip where another person left behind his
- rain-fly to save weight... and it rained.
-
- After four days it still had not been used, and he got to
- carry it on the portages back. (Mind you, I have seen many
- classic errors from which I learned lessons in guiding a
- trip... this lesson: inspect peoples kits for stupidity
- before heading out.)
-
-
-
- : Kinson Ho
-
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