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[at-l] re: pros and cons

alan wrote:

>> As you can see, the pros and the cons were a dead heat.<<

and Chris wrote:

>> Well, If you allow the Pro shop guy to go the the store before you leave
and
pick up a 6 pack of _____insert yur favorite beer here______  you will
find, as
I have, that the pros do in fact out weight the cons.<<


ok, allow me to explain.

chris has fallen into the age-old more-is-better fallacy;  easy to do, i
know.  what you need to do here is compare *thruhiker* pros and cons, to wit:

take one really professional thruhiker, say, ahh, ummm.... ME!

ke kaahawe:   135
six pack:       5  (titanium cans of course)

total:        140

now take a thruhiker-type con, like say... Felix.

Felix:        200  (difficult to judge cos i had a hard time holding him
down on the veterinarian scale)
5 gals beans:  40
dogs (2)      120  (one largeish lab type, one smallish beagle type)
umbrella:       1

total:        361

as you can see the weight of the pros is nearly a third that of the cons.
as any good ounce-weenie knows, take the lighter item.

as for getting them in the pack, a dehydrator works wonders.  jeff m. has
already begun by drying all the beans, but jeff...  c'mon guy, you're
drying the heavier items... you're barking up the wrong tree, except that
in this case the tree is really a rope.  to keep everything tightly packed,
cap off with the diaphragm...

any questions?

mike
ke kaahawe

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