[at-l] Re: [backpackingwithchildren] 3.5 year olds pack list....

[gadog430 at charter.net (Gadog430)]

Bing Bong down the trail. And they are soooooooooo cute.
Puppy Dawg carries her own too. I carry the tent.
Dawg


----- Original Message -----
From: "Sloetoe" <sloetoe@yahoo.com>
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Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 5:33 PM
Subject: [at-l] Re: [backpackingwithchildren] 3.5 year olds pack list....


> ### Good, because inmy chaotic little world, I haven't had a
> chance to comment. (And may not till Monday!) But! At three, my
> boys were carrying their own toys, their flashlight, and a
> snack. (They were both still small enough to fit into a bivy
> with Mom or Dad.) At 4.5, they were carrying their own clothes
> and toys and flashlight and water. And at age 6, they were
> carrying their own equipment (now in a regular pack -- 2200ci
> "Camper" from Tough Traveler), including clothes, bivy, bag, and
> pad, and water and a snack, adding up to 10-12 pounds for their
> 45 pound body weight -- about 25% of their body weight. And
> this, over the northern (and *tougher*) end of the Long Trail.
>
> ### FWIW, their pack weight has remained about the same as they
> have grown -- even though it takes more to do the job, they
> justify investments to lower the ounce per unit-utility. At ~90
> pounds now, just past their 11th birthday, I am about to spend
> $45/boy to lower their packweight another 1+ pound, which is
> good AND necessary, because I have had to recruit them into
> carrying food -- I just can't do it all anymore. So now we'll
> have to talk about a pure "base" weight of ~10 pounds, and then
> go up to include food and water carried. Hoo boy.
>
> dadtoe
> (some pick-a-tures at backpackingwithchildren under Sloetoe&Sons
> Walking Co.)
>
> > Message: 1
> >    Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 20:00:19 -0000
> >    From: "eacrouch2001" <erin@danno.tzo.com>
> > Subject: Re: 3 1/2 year old gear list
> >
> > Your gearlist got lost.  Erin
> >
> >
> > --- In backpackingwithchildren@yahoogroups.com, Rod Lawlor
> > <rod.lawlor@r...> wrote:
> > > Okay, at the risk of looking like a dropkick, I'll post a
> > gear list here.  I'd like it to be known thatt this is no way
> > indicative of the organisation of the rest of my life, ....
>
> Spatior! Nitor! Nitor! Tempero!
>    Pro Pondera Et Meliora.
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