Re: [at-l] gear vs. luxuries

["Peter Nyberg" <pnyberg@pipeline.com>]

Well, this is kind of embarassing...

I'm strictly a section hiker ( for now anyway ), I do a week or so at a
time. I've kept notes about my hikes since 1985.  This year I put the notes
up on my Internet site.  Somehow until I went through the effort of
transcribing the notes, I never noticed that on almost every trip I ran
short of toilet paper.  Over and over and over I made a note "take more next
time", and somehow, I never did.  And it's not like I was trying to go
ultralight, on most of these trips I was carrying 55 lbs or more!

But, as Rosanne Rosannadanna told us long ago, "Ya know, it's always
something!"

    Peter

    Visit my hiking pages at
http://www.pipeline.com/~pnyberg/Hiking/Hiking.html

-----Original Message-----
From: Pat Villeneuve <patv@falcon.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: Tuesday, January 12, 1999 6:34 PM
Subject: [at-l] gear vs. luxuries


>A lot of us are trying to "lighten up." Still, every year we hear sad
>and funny stories about overburdened hikers and the things they tote.
>(There was a guy in 96 who started with a tea kettle, a basin and epsom
>salts to soak his feet, but I digress...)
>
>I'd like to turn this around a bit and ask if you ever really needed
>something that you weren't carrying. Perhaps we could learn from
>this--if we avoid answers like a hand cart, a pack animal, ferret
>feed, or a Pepsi machine... ;->
>
>Give Me Chocolate
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