[at-l] Pack Weights for the Hut Croo (NH)

[rafe.bustin@verizon.net (Raphael Bustin)]

At 03:06 PM 6/28/2002 -0400, Rick B. wrote:

 > That was interesting. I wonder if they used the backboards with the head 
strap back then.
 >
 > Your post made me think of one of the ethics books by the late Guy
 > Waterman-- "Backwoods Ethics" I think.  In it he had a light-hearted 
chapter on
 > backpacker lies, and related a how he overheard a hutman resting with
 > his load, who was play acting out the reaction he was surely to recieve
 > from the guests when he arrived with under its strain.
 >
 > Laugh out loud funny stuff in that chapter.  While other thigs he wrote may
 > be more important, that chapter still remains one of my favorite pieces on
 > backpacking.  Waterman was brilliant.


Long time ago one of the hut boys told me a story about
some other hut boy who entertained himself (for the summer)
inching a wood stove up one of the trails on Mt. Madison.

Somehow, the story was just weird enough to believe.


rafe .b
aka terrapin