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Re: [at-l] Other nice things...

Nail Clippers what about that BIC RAZOR? Whatever. You have inspired me to
plan a hike this weekend come Monday we'll compare notes..... 

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> From: Phil Romans <promans@justice.loyola.edu>
> To: A <at-l@saffron.hack.net>
> Subject: [at-l] Other nice things...
> Date: Wednesday, February 19, 1997 8:39 AM
> 
> Ok folks,
> 	There are a couple of ideas that I want to share while I still can.
> 
> One of the best pieces of extra gear no one has mentioned- nail clippers!
> 	How the heck could you pass these up?
> 
> Getting out, excrising, prepairing your body in general.  I have been 
> doing about 30 minutes a day on a Nordic Track, for the past 3 months.  I

> know that nothing replaces gonig out and actually backpacking, but with 
> my time restraints of work and living at home... I cannot work it in, 
> even though I know I ought to.     I have alot of exprience at 
> backpacking, not as much as some, but more than others.  I am counting on

> that to pull me through the beginning periods of hiking while everything 
> gets worked out.  No matter how many times a week you go out and strap a 
> pack on your back, you can't simulate 8 hours of hiking a day-7days a
week.
> 
> 	Food, I am becoming a little less worried but I still quiet 
> frankly have no idea what I am stepping into.  For the most part, all of 
> my backpacking food has been supplied by other people.  I figure alot of 
> pasta and peanut butter.  (yum!)
> 
> 	Gear... How am I going to put this... I have noticed something 
> about backpackers in general.  You ask thirty different people thier take

> on gear and you will get 29 different answers.  (the people that match 
> are just an anomally)  I can't afford the ultra-light stuff.  I can 
> however break through to good gear and keep it for awhile.  
> 	There are several different layers to backpackers' gear.  The 
> first is getting past the blue-jeans.  The next is finding out about 
> stoves and different cool things like water purifiers.  The next is 
> upgrading through exprience to the things that work well.  The next layer

> is buying the absolute lightest gear you can get and just show it off to 
> others.  The final level is carrying the absolute minuim of the lightest 
> gear you can find.
> 	You deal with what you have.  There is no way to hike your own 
> hike if are consistently looking at the next level and thinking of how 
> you can do better.  Sure it is nice to strive for it, but if you are 
> consisently thinking about what else you can do, you are ingoring the 
> number one rule of hiking... HIKE YOUR OWN HIKE.
> 
> Enough of my ramblings... I have a weekend of backpacking to attend to.
> 
> -=phil
> 
> 
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