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Re: [at-l] pros and cons

>Michael Henderson wrote-

>>on top of all the gear you might weigh, now you have to weigh pros and
>>cons, too!

>OK, Mike, I decided to take you up on this.  I looked in all the references for
>some help (Jardine, Wingfoot, Colin Fletcher, Hints from Heloise) but, sadly,
>none of them mention ANYTHING about how to go about doing this.  I was on my
>own, so I've included my results here so that others will not have to do their
>own research.
>  First, there was a question about the scale to use.  Obviously, the postal
>scale would not work well here as most of the pros and cons I needed to weigh
>were quite a bit heavier than your average postal package.  In fact, both the
>bathroom and the medical scales I looked at would prove insufficient for at
>least one of the pros, so I took him to the dump in the back of my pickup and
>had him weighed there.

>  The Pros consisted of the following: an NFL offensive lineman (this is the
>guy who I took for a ride in my pickup; he was rather curtious about the whole
>thing really, not at all offensive); an-up-and coming tennis pro (OK, she is
>only 14 years old and she is my daughter, but she's got a wicked backarm, in
>more ways than one); and the guy who works behind the counter at my local pro
>golf shop (yeah, that's stretching it but you didn't specify what kind of
>pros).

>  For the Cons, I simply went to my local neighborhood State Penitentiary.  I
>admit that I was rather afraid to perform this particular part of the research
>but then I r
>  THE RESULTS: (all in good old American pounds, none of that metric crap)

>Football dude	535 (without gear)
>My daughter	 65 (just out of the shower)
>Pro shop guy	372 (holding empty beer can)

>Pros Total	972

>Uncle Bill	427 (former heavyweight Fat Cat, now reformed and lighter)
>Nice killer 	220 (great pects - all that weightlifting)
>Hustle-No-More	325 (he wanted to bet me that he was in typical spring training
>		     weight but I declined)

>Cons Total	972

>  As you can see, the pros and the cons were a dead heat.  Before I proceed
>with my research, could you (or anyone else on the list for that matter) please
>tell me just why you wanted me to weigh the pros and cons?  I mean, what does
>this have to do with the AT?  Isn't this carrying the pack weight thing too far
>(or actually, not carrying the pack at all, as none of the subjects in my
>research would fit into my pack, save my daughter who I carried enough as a
>baby, unless, of course, you have a much bigger pack than mine or know
>something that I don't)?

>Anxiously awaiting,

>Alan  ;-)
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