[at-l] my 31 drops...

[DTimm65344@aol.com (DTimm65344@aol.com)]

Agreed.  I tend never to consider resupply except where something is 
immediately adjacent to the trail (there's enough miles on the trail without 
side trips to towns or a couple of miles down the road) so I typically carry 
what I need start to finish of a section, but that's me.  I find zero days 
and town days to be conterproductive, for me at least.  My current dilema for 
the GA/NC hike this year, which I'm working on, is that I want to drop most 
of my food at the Center so I don't need to carry twenty pounds of food the 
first two days in March.  In attempting to stay on the trail and not kill 
myself, that little piece of logistics is looking like it will cost me a late 
start on March 1 (but I'm still working on that to eliminate the problem and 
not kill myself).

Hike happy and, as we are all so fond of saying, HYOH -

Black&blue

In a message dated 02/10/02 10:45:06 AM Eastern Standard Time, patv@ukans.edu 
writes:


> DTimm65344@aol.com wrote:
> 
> > As he explained, he's an engineer (me too).  We learned long ago 
> something
> > called "minimum essential design" and it can be applied to all things,
> > including pack weights - all the iltralights should be applauding this
> > rationale, I think?
> 
> But there is a point of diminishing returns if it takes away too much 
> hiking
> time...
> (FWIW, I used to be married to an engineer who could waste inordinate time
> and other resources making things "more efficient"...  ;-P)
> 
> Give Me Chocolate
> 
> 



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